Donald Trump vs. a Free Press
In which we discover that Elizabeth Warren’s charge of Trump being a “thin skinned bully” is true, and further that Trump hasn’t a clue how the rule of law in our democratic republic works.
In his opinion for the court, Justice William Brennan Jr. wrote that “public discussion is a political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.” Such discussion “may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
In Donald Trump’s view, these principles shouldn’t exist. “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” he said in February. Never mind that as president, he would have no power to alter state libel laws.
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