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September 29: A brief history of Donald Trump’s mixed messages on freedom of speech
The First Amendment has allowed Trump to freely and widely share his own views, even those that are factually inaccurate, inflammatory or crude. But when others use that same freedom to question Trump or what he believes to be true, he is often quick to question their right to do so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-brief-history-of-donald-trumps-mixed-messages-on-freedom-of-speech/2017/09/28/dd44160c-a3b6-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d5b39d4d084b
October 13: Donald Trump Thinks the Freedom of the Press Is ‘Disgusting’
And he has made it very clear that he doesn’t stand for the freedom of the press. As a presidential candidate, Trump told supporters he would “open up our libel laws” to sue journalists. “We’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before,” he promised.
Trump the candidate also blacklisted reporters and entire news outlets from campaign events, referred to journalists as “scum” and “slime,” and mocked a reporter for having a disability. He vowed to sue women who reported incidents of sexual harassment and assault, along with the outlets that covered their accounts, and threatened a lawsuit against a Hispanic journalist group for calling out his bigoted remarks.
Donald Trump has pledged to defend the Constitution — even an article that doesn’t exist — but he can’t seem to lay off that pesky First Amendment.
Trump has mocked the First Amendment’s right to freedom of religion by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the country and criticized those who believe in the freedom of speech as “foolish people.” He has also endorsed attacks on protesters and the imprisonment of people who burn the flag.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/donald-trump-thinks-freedom-press-disgusting
-- 2018 --
January 6: Donald Trump suggests he wants US law to limit free speech in wake of publication of explosive new book
President says that if legislation on libel was stronger 'you wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes into your head'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-free-speech-libel-law-michael-wolff-fire-fury-mental-state-latest-a8145741.html
May 23: Trump Can't Block Critics on Twitter. What This Means For You
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-blocking-on-twitter-unconstitutional/
August 29: Now on Trump's hit list: freedom of speech
The president of the United States calls the press "the enemy of the people." Does he also have a problem with freedom of speech?
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Now-on-Trump-s-hit-list-freedom-of-speech-13192523.php
September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
October 18: Early this week, the writers’ coalition, PEN America, sued President Trump in federal court.
Trump “has made eminently clear his disdain for the press and the legal protections the First Amendment affords it,” the lawsuit said. It recalled Trump’s view “that it is ‘frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write’ and that ‘people should look into that.’ ”
PEN wants the court to block the president from using his office to retaliate against media criticism. The suit cites Trump’s reported meddling in the proposed merger of AT&T and CNN and his reported pressuring of the U.S. postmaster general to double Amazon’s postal rates. (Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
But the same president who calls the media disgusting — and thinks it would be a good idea “loosen up” libel laws so plaintiffs can win lots of money — would be lost without free-speech protections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-trashes-the-laws-that-protect-free-speech-but-he-would-be-lost-with-them/2018/10/18/b53fc85c-d2ce-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html?utm_term=.0225c2c74b3b
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