# Trump doubling down on his assault on the 1st Amendment

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**Created:** [September 19, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-doubling-down-on-his-assault-on-the-1st-amendment/1023187 "2025-09-19T13:56:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-doubling-down-on-his-assault-on-the-1st-amendment/1023187/12 "2025-09-19T22:47:19Z")

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That’s an interesting take, despite it totally ignoring history, precedent, consistency, fact, law, and the Constitution.

ETA: see also…

> [@ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show indefinitely because of comments about GOP response to Charlie Kirk death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-show-indefinitely-because-of-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-death/1023138/127):
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> Just another reminder … By definition, there’s bias in the media. Even such fundamental issues as what stories you do and do not cover and how you cover them constitute ‘bias.’ But that’s how things were for much of the last generation or four. What the Dominion lawsuit revealed about Fox News is what many of us long suspected: it’s not limited to bias and lies of omission (what they don’t tell their viewers). Their willingness to outright lie … about The Most Consequential Issues In Recent…

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