Posted on 06/21/2022 4:24:03 AM PDT by TigerClaws
For going on 17 long months now, a fake narrative has been furiously pushed on the country by people desperate to deny and to hide the facts about the 2020 Presidential election having been rigged and stolen.
This fake cover narrative is that President Donald J. Trump inspired, whipped up and then unleashed an insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington DC on January 6 in an illegal and treasonous attempt to stop the count of the electoral votes by the United States Congress.
Of course, because this is a fake narrative, that’s not really what happened, as anybody who’s even done rudimentary research in to the basic facts could tell you.
Why, the facts about January 6’s timeline are now so incontrovertible that even Rachel Maddow - RACHEL…MADDOW! - had to admit on the air that Donald Trump was still speaking at the Ellipse on the National Mall when the assault on the Capitol Building began.
After writing his stupendous 12 page letter to the nation in which he laid out the case he wants to make, Donald Trump has now very loudly and very publicly begun to demand equal time via the very same Fake News Media outlets that have been devoting countless hours to the J6 Committee’s hearings.
That sounds comical when you first hear it, right? There’s no way the Fake Corporate News Media would **ever** grant Donald J. Trump equal time, right?
Well…not so fast! Who said they had to do this **willingly**?
“Karma Patriot” is an excellent researcher that I have encountered on Telegram who has shared her findings with me and many others at We The Media.
She pointed out that both Donald J. Trump - with an Executive Order< seemed to have prepared the ground for demanding equal time with the J6 Committee.
You can read about the EO Trump signed here. And read the full text of the EO here.
You can read the letter that Barr sent to then-Vice President Mike Pence on the proposed Section 230 reform here.
You can see all the proposed reforms that then-Attorney General William Barr proposed for Section 230 detailed in red lettering - by going here.
Let me translate for you: it means when it’s proven that TV networks and online news services defamed Trump and others by selectively editing or removing or restricting access to content, they are directly engaging in editorial conduct. It’s acting as a biased gatekeeper. Legally, that media entity loses it’s limited liability shield under the law and is then open to being **civilly sued for damages and/or equal time**.
You can legally sue people for defaming you and get damages, as the Sandmann case proved, and as I believe James O’Keefe and Project Veritas are in the process of demonstrating in their defamation cases against the New York Times, CNN and Twitter.
What’s interesting is that Karma was sharing this information with me several days **before** Donald Trump suddenly began insisting on equal time with the corrupt J6 Committee.
There’s no question that Democrats have been defaming Trump and many others with selectively edited videos and one-sided presentations for going on 2 years now, a fake narrative that has now culminated in the ongoing televised travesty of the J6 Committee hearings.
Former ABC News president helping Jan. 6 committee with production of ... The J6 Committee was illegally formed and therefore none of the subpoenas it’s been issuing for over a year have any real legal force. General Michael Flynn and his legal team expertly laid out that case in a civil lawsuit back in December. Although the Florida district court tossed that lawsuit on procedural grounds, the argument it was making was sound, as I explained on my Telegram channel beginning in a series of posts that start here.
Because the J6 Committee was not formed in accordance with the House’s own rules, that should mean all the subpoena’s it’s been issuing aren’t real. This is a large part of the case that former Trump advisors Peter Navarro and Stephen Bannon will be making in their trials after being referred to the DOJ by the J6 Committee for contempt of Congress. Both were indicted and will be going to trial later this year.
The civil lawsuits that will be filed once these criminal cases are dispensed with are going to be fantastic. The basic facts about how the Committee was formed in defiance of the legislation authorizing it can’t even be disputed.
Now that Trump is demanding equal time, don’t be surprised if he files a civil lawsuit demanding equal time with the J6 Committee’s televised hearings to make his own case to the nation. And the FCC and the federal court find he has a legitimate case.
The shocked face you make when you realize you done been trapped… UPDATE: Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s EO on May 14,2021, according to Wikipedia. But did rescinding the EO presto change cause all the 230 reforms Barr redlined to be instantly removed and changed back? This is assuming Barr’s proposed changes ever took effect, something I am attempting to verify.
UPDATE 2: After more digging by Karma Patriot and assessing new information, I have revised and extended this column.
Despite the fact Biden rescinded Trump’s EO back on May 14.2021, I haven’t seen any evidence that all the new **regulations** and **revisions** to Section 230 made by Barr and the Trump DOJ were all stripped out and reversed.
Far from it.
In fact, a slew of new FCC revisions on political programming took effect on March 14th of this year. These new revisions were first announced the previous month, on February 10.
THERE IS NO SIGN WHATSOEVER THAT ANY OF THESE NEW REVISIONS THAT TOOK EFFECT IN MARCH AND JUNE OF THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN REVOKED OR RESCINDED.
You can find this yourself in the Federal Register right here.
Would be glorious if Trump can put on his case before the cameras and media forced to cover it all.
That would be a grand dish served cold.
The law is whatever the Democrats want it to be.
Trump needs to stay FAR away from that!
First of all.. his appearance would cause people to actually watch.
2nd of all.. things he says there could be used against him in legal proceedings.
No one is watching this circus, just ignore it Trump. Democratic poll numbers have actually gone DOWN since this started. Let it die.
And guess who knows how to do great TV...
Trump likely won’t have to.
There is no way Deep State allows him to do this.
And that says it all, really.
Doesn’t it though?
Yep. At some point, generally with experience, people start to assess things as they really are, not what they look like on paper.
The fact that a majority of Congress doesn't follow its rules means that the rules legitimately don't apply. A majority of the body controls the body, including the rules. While the committee and the subpoenas are dishonest and an abuse of power, neither of those things has a remedy in court. Certainly neither is a crime.
Shorter version - a majority of congress signed on to the subpoenas. No court is going to step into the mess.
But get this. If the parties were reversed, the courts (which are politically aligned) could well rule the other way.
The press isn't going to turn honest. There is no force capable of creating that result. Trump will not get equal time, but he is able to make his argument using agreeable microphones.
The OP suggests that the appearance would NOT be with the Committee, but rather just him telling his side and the media being forced to give him air time to make his case.
The legal force supposedly comes from an executive order that changed FCC interpretation of certain parts of statutory law.
It’s all a pipe dream, not going to happen. And FWIW, I don’t think it matters one way or the other. The people have figured out that the government and the press are big fat liars.
He’s not demanding equal time to appear before the Democrat committee - that would indeed be stupid.
He is demanding equal media coverage for rebuttal of their lies - to be broadcast from a place of his choosing, featuring representatives and witnesses of his choosing. It could be a classic Trump rally or whatever.
The networks that carried the Democrat farce would have to provide equal coverage to his presentation, whatever it is.
I don’t think this article is about him participating in the current “hearings” but is rather about him being allowed equal time on the networks to state his case - completely separate from the J6 hearings.
It could be commercials or anything he chooses for the set time. Imagine CBS or ABC or CNN all showing 40 one-hour shows in prime time that were designed and produced by Trump.
lol I can dream...
Look at what they accuse and then reverse the perpetrators and it makes perfect sense. Every time, it’s what democraps do.
Current SCOTUS would decide the law and I like our chances.
Equal time. Trump could rebut the J6 narrative and also lay out the fraud that led to it.
It’s be well produced, informative, and entertaining. Would have a yuuuge audience.
Hope he sues for this.
Not even those who win defamation suits get equal time. All they get is damages and a buried correction.
And Trump prevailing in a defamation suit isn’t going to happen. No court would allow it. What I mean to insinuate there is that the courts are just as much hacks as the J6 Committee is.
“the cameras and media forced to cover it all”
Your more optimistic than me my friend.....the lib media has blacking out information that they don’t want the American people to know down to a science.
I doubt President Trumps side would get 10% of the exposure from the media that those hearings have gotten so far.
Can he use his equal time to force the fake news media to air 2000 Mules? I would split a gut laughing.
Political speech.
Equal time isn’t about defamation. It’s about equal access to media because said media is operating under a federal granting of the air waves.
Yea. Trump can play evidence of the steal on all the networks and channels that aired the J6 hearings.
Equal time is well established federal law.
He has a shot at this.
Would be glorious.
The equal time rule only applies in the context of a political campaign. The way I took the OP, it is about changes to section 230, outlets becoming editors, and similar regulations.
The J6 Committee was a political campaign ad. Clearly.
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