Posted on 09/25/2024 4:10:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
For someone who has so strongly objected in recent weeks to the idea that he’s an authoritarian or a threat to democracy, Donald Trump has a funny way of showing it.
At a rally Monday in Pennsylvania, the former president said for at least the fourth time that criticizing judges and justices either is or should be illegal. And for what may be the first time, he directly said people who do so should go to jail.
This was not only a stunning comment about restricting free speech, but it suggests a standard that most likely would have landed Trump in jail long ago. Few modern political figures, after all, have spent so much time attacking judges and others involved in the judicial process, in an obvious attempt to apply political pressure. It’s now Trump who says attempts to criticize and apply pressure — “playing the ref,” as he often puts it — should be a crime.
After praising the Supreme Court for favorable opinions at a rally Monday in Indiana, Pa., the former president turned to those who express the opposite view.
“And they take a lot of hits because of it,” Trump said of the justices. “It should be illegal what happens. You know you have these guys that are, like, playing the ref like the great Bobby Knight.
“These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
But it's OK for Hillary to call for the government to criminalize "disinformation".
Wow, talk about projection from the party that has censored and criminalized dissent.
They put doctors in prison who (correctly) disagreed with their Covid nonsense .
They censored “misinformation” that was true.
They repeatedly make up fake charges against Trump.
It’s truly Freudian.
Not going to a WaPo link but if Trump said, “that criticizing judges and justices either is or should be illegal” something says he was talking about Merchan or similar commie judge who violates the Constitution.
Whatever happened to Journalism? It has become so corrupted with communism and opinionism that it isn’t worth the time to read much of the drivel that seeps out of the infection we call ‘news.’
IMO Trump has kind of lost it, and campaigns and elections are mostly a sham at this point anyway—but we still desperately need him in ahead of Harris.
Video of excerpt or it didn’t happen.
And I couldn’t find anything like that this week.
Also not clicking through based on the identity of the source.
This must have something to do with six out of mine SCOTUS justices being terroristically threatened/intimidated.
Which WaPo probably thinks is justified.
I have news for the WaPo
Trump adheres to the Constitution
Period.
I always like to check out the authors of these hit pieces:
Aaron Blake
Washington, D.C.
Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix
Education: University of Minnesota
Aaron Blake is senior political reporter, writing for The Fix. A Minnesota native, he has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Hill newspaper.
Just as I thought. Never heard of him.
Exactly. Wouldn’t the Useful Idiots on MSDNC be wailing about incessantly? Richard Maddow would be apoplectic and we would have clips of panels yammering on it for days and weeks.
Trump has lost nothing. At least you are honest about your clutching of the pearls. He is fighting the left day-in and day-out and has the energy of someone in their 20s. Amazing!
So, a court order that forbids criticism by Trump of the hostile and corrupt Judge Merchan is OK, but making a similar prohibition generally applicable is not?
VP candidate Walz has also talked about the criminalization of “ mis information “. Big question is who decides what is misinformation?
If judges break the law in the way they conduct their courts there should be accountability.
The Trump rally I listened to yesterday had a segment referring to the people protesting outside justices’ homes and threatening justices. Trumo said that is illegal and the those who threaten justices should be jailed. He’s not wrong on either issue.
It is wild how much the left has spent this campaign cycle distorting things to project what they do onto others. The Democrats have a huge push right now for political censorship, while the Republicans are struggling to keep speech free, as it is under attack around the world. So of course the left has to pretend that it’s Trump doing what they are currently doing.
It’s as believable as Kamala claiming she’s for securing the border but Trump stopped it. Or Biden claiming that he inherited 9% inflation from Trump rather than 1.4%. The left has gone into full-inversion of reality mode to trick as many people as possible in their quest for absolute power for the system they serve.
Dissent has already been criminalized. Remember those “Jan 6th” charges and trials?
Have to politely disagree. Somebody got into Trump's ear and he's been MOSTLY laser-focused on the issues. He does get on a few rants here and there but, for the most part, he's on point. He knows what it's gonna take to win.
So, I figured....and.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/24/gops-sudden-turn-away-gay-rights-acceptance/
Politics
Biden administration
The Fix
The Briefs
Kelly Miller, left, and her wife, Lindsey Miller, outside the White House after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
Analysis by Aaron Blake
June 24, 2024 at 6:18 p.m. EDT
Check his basement for little boys.
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