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It’s only Fascism. Nothing major.
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Freedom of the press? We’re gonna build a big beautiful wall for those who are critical of me,
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Bill O Reilly: Mr Trump, are you saying I cant incite violence like “Tiller The Baby Killer?”
Trump: Fox is all good, all of conservative media is good as well. I will only fine and ban the liberal media.
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My first instinct was whoa, he’s threatening to follow in the footsteps of Erdogan.
But then I wondered what his buddy Roger Ailes would think about that. Opening up Fox News to litigation? That would destroy their entire business model.
It’d almost be worth it.
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Sigh. The rubes will think it’s that easy. 200+ years of slander, libel and defamation rulings by multiple SCOTUS suits can be changed with a stroke of Trump’s pen. The evolution and refinement of an entire section of U.S. laws spanning two centuries overturned by the whims of The Donald.
The stupidity is endless.
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Dangerous demagogue. Though if I were President Obama, I might be tempted to look at the the idea of suing Fox News out of existence on such a precedent as a nice little flight of fancy.
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Drumpf must know that there are some major exposes in the works.
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He’ll do it with electrolytes.
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“I’m Just a Bill” displays a more sophisticated understanding of how laws work than Mr Trump.
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Current libel law dictates that public figures can only win a lawsuit against a media outlet if they can prove that the paper published a negative piece with the intention of malice.
According to the article’s link (1), the “intention of malice” is due to a Supreme Court ruling (2). Does this mean that any law that Trump gets passed would be subject to overturn by SCOTUS?
Would SCOTUS honoring the precedent depend on the plaintiff? (i.e., Hilary Clinton- NO; Rick Scott- YES)
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The Trump Amendment to the All Writs Act will provide for the King to vacate legal precedents like that, if needed. That’s what I like about him so much! He really puts those guys in their place. If they don’t act up, nothing bad will happen. If they do, it will be all their own fault.
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ummm yeah…
purify the race…
censorship…
burn those annoying pesky bibles next…
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Current libel law dictates that public figures can only win a lawsuit against a media outlet if they can prove that the paper published a negative piece with the intention of malice.
TRUMP’S NEW RULES:
New libel law dictates that Trump can win a lawsuit against a media outlet if Trump says that the paper published a piece that is viewed by Trump as negative.
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Well, that bit there at the end wouldn’t be the worst idea.
Well…that happens to be a position which someone could call “policy” (albeit, horrible). The rest I have seen today has been vulgarity to the extreme. Thank God this man was not allowed to do what he does now to someone like FDR. We would have lost WWII. No doubt.
I do not see anyone planning a new business model in the next 8 months for the MSM.
That means FILTH (and I mean that as no exaggeration) until the GOP Convention. And then something immeasurably worse:
The Trump MSM Makeover…and for all of us who are familiar with Collective Behaviour a three-month-long pageant of the destruction of the American National Character.
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Fox news will never, NEVER let that happen.
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I don’t see the Times, Post, et al knuckling under to Trump long term. He’ll get his fair share of rough treatment one the race is winnowed to two candidates.
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