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LIVE: Trump LASHES OUT…But THIS Reporter WON’T BACK DOWN

2025-09-19 News & Politics
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Coordinated Political Pressure Tactics Threaten US Free Speech and Employment

Discover how explicit executive threats and targeted regulatory action aim to silence critics, punish journalists, and redefine the limits of political dissent across media platforms and employment sectors.

Short Summary

  • Political allies openly link media criticism of President Trump to the murder of Charlie Kirk, escalating job termination risks for public figures like Jimmy Kimmel.
  • FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr suggests broadcast licenses are contingent on refraining from criticizing the President, equating public interest with pro-Trump loyalty.
  • Federal officials are actively leveraging investigative and regulatory power (including the FHFA) to pursue politically motivated prosecutions of opponents.

This discussion analyzes the coordinated government and political response following the assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk. Host Fred Wellman interviews Greg Sargent to deconstruct the mechanisms used by figures like Donald Trump and Brendan Carr to weaponize broadcast licensing rules and bureaucratic agencies against perceived political enemies. This strategy seeks to intimidate dissent through professional ruin and the threat of legal entanglement, even if actual prosecutions fail.

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The horrifying murder of Charlie Kirk has unleashed a flood of chaos like nothing many of us have seen in our lifetimes. Recriminations have flown in all directions from his supporters and the targets are nearly anyone who doesn’t praise Kirk. Even the lightest criticism including quoting his own words from his voluminous record of speaking and writing has caused anyone from teachers, to pilots, to now TV show hosts to lose their jobs. Talking heads on the right are justifying the unfolding assault on free speech as necessary to protect the public. Even more chilling, Donald Trump has declared the amorphous movement “ANTIFA” as a domestic terrorist organization. Fred speaks longtime political commentator and journalist Greg Sargent about the unfolding chaos and attacks on our rights. Greg is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Greg is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.

Top Comments (10)

@Robrulz666icloud 2025-09-19

Charlie Kirk is no MARTYR!!! Release the damn TRUMPSTEIN files!!! Enough detractions and give the victims the justice they deserve!!!! FDJT!

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@kiranjoshi1499 2025-09-20

Kardvin has two of the largest Tesla shareholders already; most likely something is coming

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@lucycorbier7918 2025-09-19

The whole on fox news said he wanted the homeless murdered so why is fox news not be shut down

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@noraquinones4708 2025-09-19

Where is the sorrow for all the children that have been killed …. Kirk said unfortunately deaths are necessary in protection of the 2nd amendment … Kirk died as he protected his shooter the right to have a gun and his death was one of those unfortunate one … The hypocrisy is so rich ….

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@priyanshu_mishra5451 2025-09-20

Leaks coming out about Trump working together with shareholders involved with Kardvin

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@DHa-og5dx 2025-09-19

I believe the Republican Party is going to be sorry they did not stand up to Trump

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@RebeccaJacklin 2025-09-19

"The old world is dying, and the New World struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters." Antonio Gramsci

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@shivam.007.o 2025-09-20

Trump is expected to mention Kardvin this week and the ICO is already almost sold out

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@virgulejack2617 2025-09-19

He have the right to speak, that's it

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@Jettingred4 2025-09-20

As an American🇺🇸 of 74years and many Presidents this DICTATOR is completely out of CONTROL! Freedom of Speech is absolutely NECESSARY for OUR DEMOCRACY! WE have an out of CONTROL AUTHORITARIAN trying to SUPPRESS ALL OF US! 💙❤️🇺🇸🙏

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