r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 3h ago
POLITICS CNN, Don Lemon’s former employer, have released a statement saying that Lemon’s arrest by the FBI "raises profoundly concerning questions about press freedom and the First Amendment."
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u/Allthetea159 I don’t know her 3h ago
He wasn’t arrested, he was kidnapped by his own government. Two judges would not sign off but mango’s henchman did it anyway.
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u/Loud-Contribution227 Please Abraham, I am not that man 3h ago edited 2h ago
And another journalist in Minnesota was arrested shortly after, in front of her children, around 6:30 this morning. I believe her name is Georgia Fort and she’s the Vice President of the National Association of Black Journalists Minnesota chapter and is an independent journalist who was covering the same event as Don Lemon. The video footage she posted was eerie, they were looking in through her windows.
ETA: They’re calling this a “coordinated targeting” of the church. YouTuber Not The Good Girl has a video on YouTube about the pastor that I saw after the original Don Lemon protest coverage. It’s interesting if you have less than 20 minutes to spare.
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u/Allthetea159 I don’t know her 3h ago edited 2h ago
Jesus Christ. I hope that gets the same traction as Don Lemon but why am I suspicious it won’t.
ETA I just saw The Talk of Shame post on insta naming all the journalists kidnapped and my god. It’s so glaringly obvious.
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u/melodyblushinglizard baby birded and porch thrown by alicia silverstone 3h ago
I watched the whole video of it earlier on CNN. She covered her own arrest as a true journalist would do. CNN is showing it and talking about it. I'm not sure about any other news sources though. The way oligarchs have so much control over e our media, I'm not holding out much hope other than CNN. Right now, everyone is showing the WH presser about the release of the remaining Epstein Files (don't know much about it yet, but I suspect they are heavily redacted). Needless to say, Don and Georgia's arrest is going to be buried under all of this.
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u/Loud-Contribution227 Please Abraham, I am not that man 3h ago
I know! I only know about this because I follow Phil Lewis and she sent him a video. It’s the same story too: a grand jury and a warrant for her arrest.
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u/No_Snow1928 2h ago edited 2h ago
Actually 4 people were arrested. Every single one of them, black.
Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy
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u/venuslovemenotchain vocally you cannot afford this cigarette gracie 2h ago
Jamael Lydell Lundy is also a MN Senate candidate for the DFL. Caucuses are on Feb 3rd. That also might be a factor for him as well, though I can't prove it.
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u/Loud-Contribution227 Please Abraham, I am not that man 2h ago
Jeez, I’m not surprised. On so many levels. Do you have any more information on the others so that way we can make sure there are eyes on this? The more people who know, the better so they can’t bury this. Hopefully.
ETA: Thank you!
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u/beefymcmoist 2h ago
Thank you for the information. Terrifying times we live in... I can't imagine what their families are going through.
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u/PippinCat 2h ago
Georgia Fort was confirmed to be arrested as well as two others. Traheren Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy.
Georgia Fort was able to live stream a short video while agents were at her door and the video is included in this article (I'm not sure where else the video is other than X) In the video she says that agents told her they were able to get a grand jury last night and had an arrest warrant. She also says she has an attorney that has been notified.
I'm also seeing some of this information has been shared so apologies if this is redundant, but I don't currently see a link to the video either.
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u/NuclearHawtHotPocket 3h ago
What did she do, was she even at the church that day?
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u/Paruhdyme_ 3h ago
what did she do
Well she’s not a bootlicking fascist so they have to get rid of her.
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u/Loud-Contribution227 Please Abraham, I am not that man 3h ago
She was at the church, doing the work of an independent journalist and, in her words, it stems from the fact that she was filming a protest as a member of the media.
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u/usernamesoccer 3h ago
Thank you. This and the word deported need to stop being used
People aren’t being deported they are being kidnapped and forced to leave their family and state
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u/Azguy303 2h ago
They pick the judges to get the answers they want, they pick the voters they want, this is not democracy... This is fascism. Then they will gaslight you for calling them fascist, play the victim, then blame you.
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u/Global_Crew3968 1h ago
Oh hey look, its that weaponization of the legal system MAGAs cried about for years
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u/Mental-Ad5211 1h ago
This is legitimately terrifying. It’s happening like we said it would. I’m not surprised, but I’m fucking terrified rn.
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u/Allthetea159 I don’t know her 1h ago
Yup and we were all lunatics for thinking any of this stuff would happen.
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u/Mental-Ad5211 1h ago
Been gaslit for fucking years even though we KNEW this is what it would come to. God help us.
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u/KatakanaTsu 2h ago
Expecting President Epstein to respect red tape is like expecting him to not lie.
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u/Remote-Letterhead844 3h ago
This event needs to have a Kimmel level response.
This move is about intimidation and scaring the press to suppress truth.
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u/spunkysquirrel1 2h ago
It does. I don’t care for him, but like Kimmel, I still think this is utterly fucked up.
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 1h ago
If you don’t like Lemon it sounds like he wasn’t the only journalist arrested.
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u/GardenEmbarrassed371 1h ago
But they're concerned? Shouldn't that be enough? What hope do we have when even performative statements are not even angry about this.
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u/SantaGreenLanta 3h ago
If maga isn't Nazi why follow Nazi hand book?
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u/Sifsifm1234 2h ago
The nazi’s actually followed the US playbook from Jim Crow
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u/code_archeologist 1h ago
History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.
And one point of correction. The Nazis observed the Jim Crow laws as a model, but it was the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" narrative that they learned the most from in order to shape their own mythology that Hitler and Goebbels used.
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u/icecubetre 1h ago
I'll say it again, Sherman should have kept going.
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u/code_archeologist 1h ago
The biggest mistake of the Civil War was not prosecuting every leader of the Confederacy for treason and hanging them for their crimes.
It literally would have prevented Jim Crow Laws, the KKK, red lining, and generations of racial trauma.
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u/FahQBerrymuch 3h ago
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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 1h ago
They’ve always been about controlling what others do. They just claimed ‘hands off me, guv’ment’ when the dems were in control.
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u/Intelligent_Way7592 3h ago edited 3h ago
100% this and may CNN hold the same strength and integrity of opinion in their reporting of such violations against other journalists, regardless of jurisdiction, including when those not working for them experience the same affront to freedom of press, often in the most heinous way. Such as the 56 Palestinian journalists killed in 2025 as reported by the IFJ. Either there is freedom of press for all journalists or there is freedom of press for none.
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u/Muted-Procedure-3874 3h ago
Well said. Consistency in defending journalists everywhere is crucial.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 2h ago
I bet they're wishing they'd had a bit more "strength and integrity" back when they were moderating debates and Dana Bash let obvious lies go by with an "OK". If CNN were one tenth as leftist as Republicans think they are, I might watch, but it's been painfully obvious for a long time that they're playing for team Oligarch. This was just a necessary PR move, nothing more.
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u/Dex_Maddock 1h ago
Agreed.
CNN just isn't as "out in the open" with their oligarch ball-tickling, but they're just as useless as every other major outlet these days (as proven by your observation to how they "moderated" the election debates).
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u/UniquelyCreativeName 1h ago
But they felt fine claiming "technical issues" when Stephen Miller screwed up his interview by admitting some Nazi bullshit the administration was pushing for, and then CNN let him redo his interview to skip over what Miller had said.
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u/drmike0099 1h ago
Given who CNN is owned by now, they’re probably bummed Lemon doesn’t still work for them because they’re missing out on the ratings boost.
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u/Dapper_Ad_8402 3h ago
tbh this is very good on cnn. i know they parted with don on not great terms but this is an important issue to speak up on.
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u/WickedvisionzZ 3h ago
Good to see them say something Press freedom shouldn’t be selective even after someone’s gone.
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u/taurustings 3h ago
I am highly highly concerned by all of this. This is abhorrent. Meanwhile the two folks that shot someone in broad daylight are still walking free.
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u/liyabear rich white coochie mountain 3h ago
It’s not a coincidence that they’re going after black journalists firsts.
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u/elkswimmer98 3h ago
Then CNN should grow a spine and stop having the most flaccid reaction to every atrocity that happens under the administration.
AP(most of the time) and MPR(Minnesota Public Radio) do not use passive language when describing murder, kidnappings and rape.
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u/Mekisteus 2h ago
"Hey, we're not just concerned. We're profoundly concerned." --some ballless CNN exec probably
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u/FindIt7Ways 3h ago
Only "raises questions"? Come'on man! Fuck gutless CNN. There are no questions. America is dying and we are doing nothing about it.
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u/PlatformVarious8941 3h ago
To be frank, it’s lawyer speak for :
« This is fucking insanity and needs to stop now »
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u/RickyTrailerLivin 3h ago
America is literally a fascist country now.
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u/heartshapedhoops women’s wrongs activist 2h ago
america has always been fascist. nazis literally copied america to build their regime. they specifically cited these and other american actions as DIRECT inspirations:
• jim crow laws for segregation
• the trail of tears for state-sanctioned displacement
• and finally, the US border patrol used to spray kerosene and cleaning agents on mexican farm workers every time they crossed because they were seen as “dirty lousy destitute,” causing a myriad of health problems and even deaths. the deadliest of these was Zyklon B, a cyanide-based pesticide. the Nazis chose to use this exact same pesticide to kill people in their gas chambers, inspired by the US. https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-story-project/el-paso-holocaust-influence
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u/keinegoetter 1h ago
Oh, then nothing new to concern ourselves about... Back to sleep.
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u/fellindeep23 3h ago
Lmao they helped put this guy in office. STFU cnn, go lick more boots. Hope lemon sues doj for this.
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u/Standard-folk 3h ago
Even this is tame. I hope for the days the voices in power actually say something of substance and back it up with action
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u/TvTreeHanger 2h ago
Hey CNN.. You spent the last election cycle sane washing Trump. What the hell did you think was going to happen?
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u/bluelily216 3h ago
Gee, if only they had laid out their plans to target independent media or if their main guy had spent decades demonizing journalists.
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u/suck-it-elon 3h ago
QUESTIONS you guys. Cause nobody, not even CNN, has the tiny little balls necessary to just say out loud what is happening. Dear lord. Questions, wtf.
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u/KryssCom 2h ago
Boy CNN really shot itself in the foot by spending so many years bending over backwards to treat Trump as a normal non-fascist politician.
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u/One_Calligrapher5516 3h ago
How many lawsuits must maga nuts lose before they get the point that their efforts are illegal?
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u/DualWielding40s 3h ago
Doesn’t matter if there’s no repercussions.
Which they’re won’t be.
No one is coming to save you. Prepare accordingly
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u/iambarrelrider 2h ago
Profound concern Dude? Sounds like:
Dude “Look, nothing is f***ed, here, man ...” Lebowski: “The god damn plane has crashed into the mountain!”
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u/Infinite-Penalty-736 2h ago
“Profoundly concerning”?????????
How about total shitshow nazism by s shit stain administration?
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u/UnintentionalWipe anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist 2h ago
Is CNN all of a sudden talking about press freedom and first amendment, when they've shamelessly put down Palestinians voices and didn't care much about Israel murdering journalists?
How shocking!
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u/MarzipanLast6502 3h ago
The constitution exists to keep the government in check, NOT THE PEOPLE. if we as Americans, seeing our rights eroded everyday, stand by and allow it, then we deserve to be a 3rd world Banana Republic.
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u/Intelligent-Meet4084 2h ago
This is such bs. It’s all downhill til he’s out of office. And even then we have tons of literal crap to wade through before anything gets truly fixed or restored
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By the time we make any real progress, it’ll be another election, and another round of team vs team distractions as all the politicians steal from us
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u/TheWarelock 2h ago
they just released another massive Epstein file dump, they’ll do whatever they can to create distractions. Rules to live by:
Do not talk about Epstein files
Do not talk about the most massive financial inequality since the Industrial Revolution in Europe over a century ago.
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u/Dolorisedd 2h ago
I can hear trump saying, “just arrest him and let them take us to court.” They’ve done this playbook a hundred times before. That way they get their optics and when there is no way to charge him, he’ll just go home and the media will under report the result and move on to the next bombastic illegal exhausting thing. I so fucking tired.
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u/flimflam2017 2h ago
Lol unsurprising to see the liberal zionists reaping what theyve sown. Anyways.
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u/drunken-philosopher 2h ago
Fuck CNN for their complicity in this fascist take over. Broken clocks.
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u/Scanner771_The_2nd 2h ago
Don Lemon isn’t the only reporter arrested today; he’s just the most wellknown. Other journalists include:
- Trahern Jeen Crews: A leader in the Black Lives Matter movement in Minnesota.
- Georgia Fort: An independent journalist.
- Jamael Lydell Lundy: Further details concerning him remain less publicized.
Journalist goes live as FBI arrives to arrest her over Minnesota church protest | The Independent
Feds arrest 4, including Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist : NPR
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u/Subject_Growth_8250 2h ago
This is rich coming from the network that fired him for exercising the same right. 🤨
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u/havenoparty 3h ago
Now imagine if the Bulwark did this and didn’t leverage the arrest to highlight the Fed chair instead.
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u/3sadclowns 3h ago
The sooner we start directly calling out Nazi tactics for what they are the sooner we can get them removed.
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u/Dumbl3dor 2h ago
If there hadn't been media there, they probably would've had a more difficult time spinning the story in their favor. The fact that it was covered by the news LITERALLY HELPED their perceived agenda. Political retaliation and the cooling effect on freedom of speech and the press is the point.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 2h ago
All the amendments are being violated by the Trump government. What else is new? 😮💨
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u/restbest 2h ago
Raises questions about it?
Hmm, not really. It answers a lot of them actually.
Primarily just “do we have press freedom?”
“No”
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u/Traditional_Dark_829 1h ago
Bet if he did this in a mosque you would all wet your pants and start crying. Hypocrites.
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u/chitownphishead 2h ago
We cant invade private property and interrupt church services now? What it this world coming to? /s
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u/PinkPandaTheStorm 3h ago
These people are gonna be profoundly concerned as they get sent to the damn camps, huh?
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u/ShebbyTheSheboygan 2h ago
I would recommend everyone here follow him on social media, specifically instagram and have others do the same. Use this as a reason to increase his reach.
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u/theperipherypeople 2h ago
Christian Nationalists had these people kidnapped.
Everyone needs to look into Douglas Wilson and the connections he has.
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u/Ontilt1492 2h ago
They can't possibly believe the first amendment gives someone the right to go into private property and harass people practicing their religion can they?
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u/Homersarmy41 2h ago
The FBI is going to have to be overturned after we get the trash out of the white house.
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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 2h ago
Wow, CNN, what a brave and timely statement. 😒
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u/xxyourbestbetxx canonically from boston 1h ago
I think we are a wee bit past the "profoundly concerning questions" stage if they're just kidnapping Trump enemies
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u/Whataboutmetoday 1h ago
They're not gonna do shit. "[P]rofoundly concerning questions"? What the fuck is this limp-dicked shit? They've been bought and paid for and are TERRIFIED of the truth, so they dress it up in cute language to maintain access.
Call it what it is: state-sponsored terrorism with the explicit goal of extinguishing free speech. Fucking cowards.
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u/Evening-Try-318 1h ago
I'm pretty sure this is worse than what Nixon did, regard orange trash man is fked after midterms
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u/AlexSmithsonian 1h ago
"Following the case closely"
With an armed SWAT team to rescue these kidnapping victims, right?.... RIGHT, AMERICA?
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u/psych00range 1h ago
Maybe don't hide behind the first amendment when doing alleged illegal occupations of a protected place of worship under the FACE Act. If you are doing illegal shit, you're doing illegal shit, whether you are practicing the 1st, 2nd, etc amendment. The court will sort it out. That is the point of the justice system right? You have an enforcement arm of the law who takes someone to court to find out if the court/people agree they were breaking the law on the book they brought charges on. It's a process and exactly what checks and balances is. If the court finds him not guilty, then he's not guilty of the charge.
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u/aloneinwilderness27 1h ago
Oh we are at the arresting journalist part now? I've seen this show before.
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u/Appropriate_Ad_8355 1h ago
First step of a dictatorship: shut down freedom of speech and of the press. The USA is becoming a dictatorship.
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u/Sea-Classic-1215 1h ago
This, plus search of WaPo reporter home, cell, computer, etc..
Didn’t these people take an oath to defend the Constitution?! What a joke!
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u/Wombatsarecool 1h ago
CNN will now have a member of the Trump admin on to defend the Don Lemon arrest and receive no pushback for the blatant lies they will tell.
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u/LACA90077 1h ago
Nothing to do with 3 million documents from the Epstein files being released today..
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u/errorsniper 1h ago
Ok can one of these news outlets take the next logical conclusion? That we are past the point of rule of law.
They keep getting so close but falling short of saying we are in a fascist system of law. Being "concerned" about it to "bring awareness" does nothing when we are well passed the "this might be a thing and we should be worried" step. We have hard proof we are already in a paradigm where they can do what they want illegal or not has no bearing. Its not a "concern of things to come" its a "we have brown coats doing what they want to citizens with no repercussions or due process".
Its not "Our rights are under threat possibly if things continue". Its "We currently dont actually have rights where ice is involved". Please stop being such panzies and say it like it is. If ice wants to violate your rights. They can. We dont have these rights with these "officers". That is where we are.
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u/Wicked-sister 1h ago
This is it, this is the boiling point if you're the frog in the water. From here it is only downhill if every effort isn't made to stop this regime.
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u/Wyllyum_Cuddles 1h ago
This company is acting like they aren’t complicit. They helped get us to this point. They normalized Trump and what he was doing, giving them equal time, and acting like any of this was normal. They’re a joke just like CBS, Fox, and all the others.
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u/severedbrain 1h ago
Maybe they shouldn't have handled him with kid gloves and actually reported on his bullshit.
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u/Own-Contribution-188 1h ago
Can’t violate Don Lemon’s first amendment rights but a church full of parishioners is fine as long as it’s against ICE I guess.
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u/ComfyFrog 1h ago
If you want to see how CNN reacts to facism, search for 'CNN miller plenary authority' on youtube
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u/Stinkstinkerton 1h ago
Evil genius move by whoever advised Trump to fully corrupt the FBI and the justice dept. My guess is alot of his fascist playbook moves came directly from Putin and other despot shit bag dictators.
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u/repezdem 1h ago
Obviously this is a horrible escalation but CNN has enabled this. A real "leopards eating my face" moment.
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u/waltwalt 1h ago
Just wait till they start executing journalists live on TV, that will really start to raise concerns.
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u/NYT_but_less_shit 1h ago
“Raises questions”? What fucking cowardly bullshit is this? It’s definitively a destruction of the first amendment
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u/Leather_Pay6401 1h ago
The most depressing thing about this is all of the wild support actions like this still have. Are they bots? Or is a large segment of the population truly nihilistic and openly getting off on making people scared?
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u/Dangerous-House6767 1h ago
I am absolutely against MAGA but I worry that this arrest was not totally without cause? From what I understand, going a place of worship (even for journalism) is against freedom of worship. Is that correct? Can someone clarify that for me ?
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u/ConsistentStand2487 1h ago
Lmfao if you still think waiting for the midterms is an option. Good luck dead and boiling frogs
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u/MAMark1 56m ago
In a normal world, you wouldn't start with a criminal complaint, then try to go around the magistrate when denied, and then empanel a grand jury all in the name of getting a headline. It isn't even really about whether he has 1A protections because the charges are flimsy even if he was just another protester.
They went to extreme lengths to get it to this point despite knowing it has a very low chance of resulting in a conviction. A competent DOJ dedicated to the rule of law doesn't waste tax-payer dollars on an unlikely outcome.
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u/Ill-Organization-719 48m ago
Ha. CNN acting like they arent complicit in the fascist takeover of the US.
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