{"id":65624,"date":"2025-03-15T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65624"},"modified":"2025-03-15T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T19:42:28","slug":"trump-at-the-justice-department-cnn-msnbc-and-other-media-are-illegal-and-it-has-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65624","title":{"rendered":"Trump at the &#8216;Justice&#8217; Department: CNN, MSNBC, and Other Media are Illegal and &#8216;It Has to Stop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the parade of perfidy that has characterized the Second Scumming of Donald Trump (and the first one as well) took its roadshow to the hallowed halls of the United States Department of Justice. It was a particularly nauseating spectacle considering the role that those halls have represented in America&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump at the 'Justice' Department: CNN, MSNBC, and Other Media are Illegal and 'It Has to Stop'%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65624\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump at the 'Justice' Department: CNN, MSNBC, and Other Media are Illegal and 'It Has to Stop'%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65624\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/trump-censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Censorship\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39062\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this presidential outing was, according to the White House, to discuss problems related to fentanyl and other drug trafficking related crimes. But as it unfolded it was clear that Trump had an entirely different agenda. Most the time he spoke was allotted to his whining about the results of the 2020 election; to his fixation on getting revenge for being prosecuted for crimes that he actually committed; and to smearing his political opponents for his own failures. It was little more than a repeat of his partisan and hostile speech before the Joint Session of Congress last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65457\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Quotes Displaying Trump\u2019s Obsession with Himself In His Pseudo State of the Union Spiel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crammed into his caterwauling commentary was another example of his hysterical hatred for the free press that he regularly maligns as <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> Nothing bothers Trump more than hearing the truth be told about him. He raged that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion they\u2019re really corrupt and they&#8217;re illegal. What they do is illegal. It makes no difference how big a victory I had. I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes no difference what kind of a failure the other side has. These people are gonna go after me. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These networks and these newspapers are really no different than highly paid political operatives, and it has to stop. It has to be illegal. It\u2019s influencing judges, and it\u2019s really a changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump rails against members of the free press at the DOJ:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they&#39;re really corrupt and they&#39;re illegal. &#8230; It&#39;s influencing judges, and it&#39;s really changing law.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ovbwSnhURd\">pic.twitter.com\/ovbwSnhURd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1900645750381391952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, let&#8217;s note that Trump uses the word <em>&#8220;literally&#8221;<\/em> when he obviously means <em>&#8220;figuratively.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s because he literally doesn&#8217;t understand the English language. More to the point, his rant should serve as a five-alarm warning to all Americans who cherish the Constitution. His attack on the First Amendment&#8217;s protection of freedom of the press is nothing new in his repugnant repertoire, but it remains among the most troubling.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is not joking when he says that, in his opinion, CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets are <em>&#8220;illegal&#8221;<\/em> and that, given the opportunity, he will see to it that they are stopped. He has already <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65164\" target=\"_blank\">banished several news networks from the White House press pool<\/a><\/strong>, and he has declared that he will now determine which reporters are allowed to ask him questions, a role that was handled by the independent White House Correspondents Association for decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65357\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Declares Himself King of the White House Press Corps, Will Now Decide Who Can Question Him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most egregious inanities in his speech was his assertion that any media that criticizes him is <em>&#8220;no different than highly paid political operatives.&#8221;<\/em> You&#8217;ll notice that he didn&#8217;t mention Fox News, a truly political operation, in his attack. And many of their personnel are literally paid to be political hacks. At least 19 of them have joined the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump also claimed, without any evidence whatsoever, that reporting by his media foes was <em>&#8220;influencing judges,&#8221;<\/em> and was done <em>&#8220;in total coordination with each other.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s another example of projection by Trump. He often accuses his critics of the grossly improper behavior that he engages in regularly.<\/p>\n<p>When a national leader&#8217;s authoritarian rhetoric descends to the depths that Trump is dredging, it is not long before he starts to implement campaigns of brutal censorship and even incarceration of journalists that he opposes. He is executing the playbook for media suppression that he got from Vladimir Putin. And if the media doesn&#8217;t take this seriously now, they will later find out that they are unable to do anything about it from their prison cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65296\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Anti-Press Secretary Talks More to Fox News than to Reporters in the White House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65559\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is OUTRAGED that Americans Hate Musk and Trump Just Because They\u2019re Destroying America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65489\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Trump-Fluffer Insists that the Coming Trump Recession Has Nothing To Do With Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the parade of perfidy that has characterized the Second Scumming of Donald Trump (and the first one as well) took its roadshow to the hallowed halls of the United States Department of Justice. It was a particularly nauseating spectacle considering the role that those halls have represented in America&#8217;s history. Click here to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,14,1,1201,8,16],"tags":[1137,42,554,33,1135,123,22,1133],"class_list":["post-65624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-free-press","category-general","category-justice","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-censorship","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-free-press","tag-justice","tag-msnbc","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-censorship.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-h4s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66614,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66614","url_meta":{"origin":65624,"position":0},"title":"What 1st Amendment? 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