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But I'd like to know your point in posting the link about President Trump's speech at the Department of Justice to a thread about Vance's comments about Europe.

Wow! That was a lot to get to the point.

How does Vance square telling European countries to allow free speech? It wasn’t just Germany that you cited, but the UK and the whole of the EU as well. Among other issues, Vance alleged European Union "commissars" were suppressing free speech.

Now transition to the US where Trump in his speech to the DOJ took aim at journalists, judges, prosecutors as well as Biden officials, while hinting at legal action against what are perceived to be his rivals. Journalists would fall under the free speech umbrella.

It would seem the administration want freedom of speech across the pond while stifling criticism, whether correct or not, here.

First, I led with asking what your point was, and closed with it, too.

It would seem the administration want freedom of speech across the pond while stifling criticism, whether correct or not, here.

How much of this "free speech" controversy is around the visa-holding pro-Hamas protestors that are being deported? These are also some of the "bad people" that President Trump is referring to. I've been posting since Oct 7 the US Code that says that endorsing or espousing a terrorist organization is a deportable offense. Anybody who is on an American university campus with a student visa who is supporting Hamas by name (not just anti-Israel sentiments) and chanting their direct slogans ("From the river to the sea") are committing deportable acts.

Is this what you're referring to as "stifling criticism here?"

Can you name an American journalist that President Trump has jailed or stifled? I can't. Kicking the AP out of the White House Briefing Room doesn't count; they're still free to report on the President. Being in THAT room is a privilege.

Now, under which administration did the following happen?

Catherine Herridge was fired by CBS and had her personal investigative files on Hunter Biden and COVID-19 origins seized and held for one year by the network.
Fox News reporter James Rosen was spied on, had his movements monitored, his emails and phone records (and his parents' phone records) examined, and was labeled a "criminal co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act by the DoJ.
Former CBS News journalist Sharyl Attkisson accused the DoJ of illegally spying on her, including hacking into her computers.
The DoJ secretly obtained two months' worth of phone records from AP reporters, affecting more than 100 staffers. The DoJ acquired records for more than 20 different phone lines associated with the AP, including reporters' cell, office, and home lines.
Filmmaker Mark Basseley Youssef, an an Egyptian-American living in Los Angeles, was blamed for inciting the Benghazi attack on the American embassey in Libya. He was later cleared of incitement by immediately arrested for parole violations.

-PJ

Journalists...

The Fourth Estate has become a fifth column.

Trump isn’t stifling free speech in any way.

The enemedia’s problem us that the American public now knows most of them for what they are.

Enemies of our republic.

I’ve got news for you.

Trump is the least of their problems.