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The Press That Called to Censor Trump Cannot Stop Their Compulsion to Broadcast His Words

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Ubiquitous

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Mar 29, 2023, 5:08:15 AM3/29/23
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Have you noticed that after his words are claimed to pose an inherent
threat to the nation, Trump’s quotes manage to appear everywhere?

It was the first week of March when something caught my eye and then
strummed something in the back of my brain. It was a tweet from Maggie
Haberman and she was basically responding to a claim made by Donald
Trump that he had not sought an endorsement from Sarah Huckabee
Sanders. What struck me was she gave a screencap of Trump’s comments on
the matter from Truth Social. There was a full quote from the despised
former president, placed prominently on the social platform he had been
chased off of years prior, and whose reinstatement in the Fall by Elon
Musk had led to wailing from the press.

This was incongruous with what we had been lectured about for years;
Trump’s words were said to be so harmful that they were required to be
cast away in permanence, and yet here was a member of the press sharing
them willingly on the very platform from which the press demanded they
be banned. It was hardly an isolated incident, and it only predated far
more of this from the journalism sector.

In the New York Times this weekend, there was a report about how Donald
Trump has managed to maintain a position of political influence since
he was deposed in the 2020 election. Hilariously, it was the very same
Maggie Haberman covering the phenomenon, insisting that despite efforts
to silence and ostracize the former president, he has instead persisted
and continued to be a presence.

Since he left office, Democrats and a smaller number of
Republicans have vowed to ensure that former President Donald
J. Trump never recaptures the White House, where he would
regain enormous power over the nation and around the globe.

Maggie goes on to claim that he has managed to rise to prominence,
despite all the efforts to turn Trump into a pariah.

To those who believed that the secret to banishing Mr. Trump
was to deprive him of attention — that ignoring him would make
him go away — he has shown that to be wishful thinking.

Maybe it is a case of unfortunate timing that this was published just
as the media spectrum was in a whirlwind about the speculative claim
Trump is poised to be arrested in New York on March 21. More likely, it
is a case of ridiculously lame gaslighting. This proves out as we see
the piece was written by the woman who wrote “Confidence Man.” It is
pretty ludicrous to claim Trump has been ignored in the New York Times
when this New York Times writer was just on the New York Times best-
seller list with a book focused entirely on Trump.

This weekend has been one of a media outburst, as Trump announced on
his Truth Social platform that he anticipated legal action against him
to take place. It was with a heavy dose of obliviousness that so many
in the media spectrum shared Trump’s post from his site. This was the
man, after all, that these same media figures had chased off of Twitter
and FaceBook, declaring his words to be an inherent threat. Now they
were retweeting his quotes with aplomb.

In many of the reports, there was also the follow-up commentary on
Trump’s plea to have people protest in his name. They condemned this
announcement and called it everything from a promise of violence to an
inherent threat to the core of this nation. Yet, unable to contain
themselves, they went ahead and shared those very words that were
declared to be so poisonous.

Washington Post writer Aaron Blake posted a number of entries by Trump
from Truth Social. Huffington Post covered all angles and all quotes
from the man. On MSNBC, they parsed his syntax into legal projections.
Robert Costa at CBS News joined others in complaining about how Ron
DeSantis had not properly commented on the news. Legal expert (your
mileage on this may vary) Andrew Weissman followed suit by talking
about both the legal and the dangerous ramifications of what Trump had
said regarding the call for protests. Andrew had stern words, but he
also had Trump’s words, delivered at the ready.

Andrew Weissman explains why Trump’s rhetoric in his latest
Truth Social post could be legally problematic.

“It’s notable that he did not say you should protest
‘peacefully’. It was sort of conspicuous that he left that
word out.” pic.twitter.com/4yZrQPY0Vg

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 18, 2023

"But Trump’s arrest announcement was a significant news item", some
might claim as a form of defense. After all, a former president on the
verge of serving jail time is historic; covering that news is needed.
Sure — but…

This was not the start of the coverage of the man who would be
indicted. Last week, the press complex was abuzz with the announcement
that a challenge to an impending presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis
had been filed. The entity behind this was a Trump super PAC, and
curiously, the media that had long-declared Trump off-limits — and have
complained he cannot be reelected for the good of the nation — were
covering this filing ardently, which essentially was an in-kind
donation to the Trump campaign.

The one thing as equally ridiculous as Donald Trump filing an ethics
complaint is the press giving Trump rapturous coverage on the matter.
NBC News gave a full-bodied examination of the filing, enthusiastically
laying out the cause, quoting the group, Make America Great Again Inc.,
extensively, and providing links to the documents. This was clearly a
fed story from the Trump campaign, evidenced by the outlet watermarking
all the pages of the legal filing. The Daily Beast was equally excited
to share the Trump super PAC move, as was Jake Tapper, and many others.

This has been seen repeatedly from those voices who screeched the
loudest about muting the most dangerous man in America. Reflexively
posting about his comments at Truth Social? The Lincoln Project is cool
with that. Reposting videos from the man who will bring down our
democracy? Aaron Rupar is on the case! Demanding Trump’s words be
broadcast to the world, after telling us that seeing his words was the
surest way to provoke violence across the country? Biden’s paid
influencer lackeys cannot grasp the paradox of their own words.

So now, detailing the campaign efforts of Trump’s clan with spoonfed
exclusives is acceptable from the industry that wailed over the need to
muzzle this same man across all social platforms. It is all the proof
needed to show they cannot help themselves. This is the same press
complex that at once complained Trump was tweeting incessantly, and
then whenever a news item broke the first thing they would do is report
on his tweeted comments about the news – or even complain that so far
the president had yet to tweet about it. They are incapable of holding
back on covering the man and incapable of seeing their own
contradiction.

"Why is Trump continually in the news?!", ask the newsmakers who are
compulsively driven to cover the man in an obsessive fashion.

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Let's go Brandon!

pothead

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Mar 29, 2023, 7:39:29 AM3/29/23
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Trump is continually in the news for several reasons:

1. He is outspoken and controversial
2. The left are terrified of him possibly winning in 2024 so they have to keep posting negative
stories about him.
3. Controversy brings in viewers which brings in advertising dollars. This one is kind of worn out
though seeing as left wing MSM are tanking in ratings. People have finally realized what is going
on.
4. It's a smoke screen for disastrous, demented Joe Biden, his circus like incompetent
administration and his constant gaffs like making jokes about ice cream and kids in the audience
when addressing the Tennessee horror. The man has no class. The MSM buried this and started the
clip where Biden politicized the crime by going back to his assault weapons ban. Whether or not you
agree with the ban isn't the point, this was the wrong time for Biden and the MSM to push the
concept. I wonder how the families of those who were killed felt about Joe's ice cream stand up
comedy routine.
5. What can you say about Biden? Everything he's been involved in has turned to shit. So it's best
not to talk about him at all. That's why they hid him in his basement during the campaign. The more
you see/hear Joe Biden the more you realize he is not playing with a full deck and is not the
"Uncle Joe" of 10 years ago that he still pretends to be.


There are many more reasons but one thing people should take note of, the MSM like CNN and MSNBC
are both operating from the same Trump hate playbook. They can literally complete each other's
sentences. This is an organized attack and it is sure to get worse.





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pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024.
Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.
Impeach Joe Biden 2022.
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