Trump keeps talking about criminalizing dissent

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 11:27:52 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:26:52 5 days ago

Trump keeps talking about criminalizing dissent
Washington Post via MSN ^ | Sep 24, 2024 | Aaron Blake

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.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disinformation; dissent; judges

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What's missing is the context of Trump's statements. Giving the rest of the story on why he's saying that.

But it's OK for Hillary to call for the government to criminalize "disinformation".

To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.

2 posted on 09/25/2024 4:14:07 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.

3 posted on 09/25/2024 4:19:29 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )

To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.’

4 posted on 09/25/2024 4:23:30 AM PDT by jimbug

To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.

5 posted on 09/25/2024 4:23:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Video of excerpt or it didn’t happen.

And I couldn’t find anything like that this week.

6 posted on 09/25/2024 4:25:01 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)

To: quantim

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.

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