Should Trump Arrest Journalists?

Sorry, but the mysterious boogie man of someone on the right calling or leaning for journalist to be imprisoned is a fairy tale. Lets not forget it was the Obama admin who arrested a youtuber for posting a video and then blamed the attack and deaths on Bengahzi on that youtuber. It was Obama that used the NSA to spy on reporters. Other than calling the lies of CNN, MSNBC, and other liberal rags "fake news", the right is not looking to punish by legislation. They believe the free market will handle the hacks, as we keep seeing Fox and YouTube growing while the viewers of liberal media shrink to be out done by the food network.

 

hahhaha. spot on post!

 

Did you ask the same question when Obama forbade Fox News from attending his news conferences? Or do our leftists even recall that event? But why should Trump attempt to arrest anyone? You DO understand the actual limitations of his political office, yes?

No more than nation-hating Barack Obama can Trump simply snap his fingers and have anyone taken off the streets. Okay, granted, there was that time when Obama blamed a film maker for making Benghazi happen and did get the fellow put into prison, but he was out on parole and so all he had to do was have that parole revoked. So not even fascism inclined Barack Obama could actually BE the dictator that he yearned to become.

But considering that the fake news Left is helping Trump run for re-election -- without even being aware of it -- why would he want to have any of those Trump-hating and hysterical journalists arrested even if he COULD pull a Barack Obama and have it done?

 

While in the UK, Trump was recorded on TV giving an interview. When asked about it next day he called it FAKE NEWS!

 

The reason that YouTuber was arrested was BECAUSE he may have caused the Benghazi. riots. Hillary was accused of not helping, AFTER the riots started, which she couldn't have done anyway. The Security Forces at Embassies are elite soldiers but just a token force really dependent on the host country, which practice is universally itself a diplomatic courtesy. If the host country should ever withdraw its protection Embassies are pretty much up the excrement waterway as rescuing invasions take time no matter how big you are

And I have the answer to my question, which is how dare you ask it, to be repeated more and more loudly as the Great Makers Special Police Force starts hauling people off to the Deportation Chambers

Too funny, but then you hear the choruses of "Eeeyuup, you TELL 'em Big Don", and stop laughing

 

Trump should just continue following the law and constitution unlike the last Prez.

 

Sounds like a job for Adam Smith's Invisible Hand, carrying a pair of cord cutting scissors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord-cutting

 

If they break the law, sure.
Certainly, you agree.

 

He shouldn't "arrest" them, what he should do is sue them for slander.

 

This seems like a silly poll. I am a conservative and voted no. First, Trump can't arrest anyone, unless he made a citizens arrest I guess, which would just be funny. Pretty sure no one thinks journalists should be arrested, even when they lie, although I think that does happen in communists countries. I do think the president should continue to hit back when he's hit. Fair is fair.

 

To be worded TRUTHFULLY, it should be:

Should President Trump reporters and journalists arrested like President Obama did?

 

I'm gathering your answer is yes, since you never had a problem with the Obama administration having journalists arrested.

 

Wow there is so much misinformation right there.

 

Of course not, he should just ignore them and favor those that write good stuff about him like every other President in history.

 

Trump, like his fellow hate filled right wingers, is all about FAKE NEWS.

 

When any leader arrests reporters, that leader is extinguishing freedom of the press, and promoting themselves as a potential tyrant. Reporters generally are highly trained--including issues of ethics--and should deserve our respect and trust. There are exceptions, I know. But better not to judge the majority by the examples of a few minority. The Press was recognized by our founding fathers as the key to avoidance of tyrannical rule. We must maintain our trust & respect for the press as a means of protecting our own freedoms.

 

Out in the open?? Hell, even FOX is jumping on his ass now. The world wide news reporters are all pretty much saying the same thing: trump gave away the farm. Even the Republicans in D.C. are waking up.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/congress-reaction-trump-putin-comments/index.html

 

He can't, or if he does his wall will come crumbling down, when the wall, Comes crumbling, tumbling d-o-w-n, yeah-yeah-yeah..

 

Well, we all really knew it was just a matter of time before his boy crush was revealed.

 

Are PR agents of Amazon REALLY "journalists?" What about the PR agents of the richest man on earth, a Mexican?

If my company buys a newspaper and promotes stances profiting my company as I want, is that still journalism? That is the reality of EVERY major newspapers in the USA now.

 

Name ANYTHING Trump gave away. You can't name one thing, can you?

 

Now. He'll say something mean about him next week and all will be forgiven/forgotten. His congressional cadre of fawning sycophants have been maneuvered into relying upon the same 'base' of truly evil and/or stupid people as Trump feels slavishly support him and now feel they must rely upon the rabid Trumpeters to the exclusion of the great majority of us who have already or are now turning against him. I just hope we good people have the sense to VOTE in 2018 and 2020. We may not get the chance to do so again if we don't this time.

 

A free press in today's world is not usually extinguished by direct attack.

As we've seen in various left- and right-wing authoritarian states, the way you do it is:

Hold up, or deny, broadcasting licenses to TV networks you don't like. (Hugo Chavez favored this method.)

With government money, buy 'advertisements' in newspapers you do like, giving them an effective subsidy.

Assassinate the occasional journalist who gets too nosy. (Russia, Mexico.)

Sue journalists for slander. (They like this method in Singapore.)

We've seen several East/Central European states moving this way, following Russia. Europeans are more comfortable
with the idea of official state-run television anyway, and once you have that, it's easy to pressure them to squeeze out
reporting that does nor favor the current holders of power.

Wherever the Left has some power in the US, mainly on college campuses, free speech is under attack, mainly through mob action.
If they were to get state power, we'd no doubt see them move against the conservative press, probably through passing
'hate speech' laws.

But at the moment, we're a long way from that. Both mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans retain a deep
commitment to this core American value.

 

You must realize that "giving away the farm" doesn't actually mean giving away the farm house, corn fields and cows. If you don't know what it means we don't have enough space on this page to try and explain it to you.

 

Show me the evidence.

As opposed to Alex Jones, Limbaugh, Hannity... This is the right-wing version of the truth. Watch it and see what now constitutes "being Republican".