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Trumps minions order Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air
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Started by metmike - Sept. 17, 2025, 8:02 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/114744/
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https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/116096/#116704
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested in addition to three other journalists "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-lemon-arrested-federal-authorities-attorney-says-rcna256680
Updated July 31, 2019, 5:25 p.m. ET
Too funny that Donald Trump referred to Don Lemon as the dumbest man on television.
While Donald Trump acts like the dumbest president in history by a Grand Canyon wide margin.
Donald Trump can’t even remember what got him elected.
The DOJ weaponizing their power to unfairly attack and investigate him while he was in office and after his first term. This is what help galvanize the non MAGA base which he needed to win the 2024 election.
Millions could see the bias from the Swamp, especially the DOJ that singled him out for being Donald Trump on numerous occasions and created a victim that people empathized with in November 2024.
Millions of his votes in that last election were votes against the weaponizing of the criminal justice system.
So what does he do?
He creates a 5 times swampier swamp and personally uses the justice department that he hired after they swore allegiance to Donald Trump(the old swamp was NOT being controlled by Joe Biden).
And just like he was the victim and martyr, he is creating victims and martyrs left and right for doing exactly what he insisted was so wrongly being done to him……only an order of magnitude worse, including vengeance and rewriting history (2020 election) and trying to destroy anybody that didn’t vote for him or any media that reports the truth about him.
And the entire world, except for MAGA sees it clearly. So not only does it make him look worse and worse and unqualified to be president, he picks battles that he’s not smart enough to know that he will lose or has lost already.
For instance, He boosted Jimmy Kimmels ratings and made Donald Trump look really bad. He and his sycophants created 2 martyrs for their anti ICE cause in MN and that battle is lost in MN and has damaged ICE forever in our country with no chance of being redeemed. But he continues to attack Alex Pretti, a wonderful human being and universally respected martyr for the cause Every attack he makes, causes Donald Trump to look worse and worse!
Don Lemon was fired by CNN for low ratings and low likability and everybody completely forgot about him forever.
Thanks to Donald Trump, Don Lemon‘s name and activities are suddenly the top news story. Donald Trump just created a new martyr with a new cause.
Don Lemon is now fighting for EVERYBODYS rights in the First Amendment. Don Lemons dead career has just been rejuvenated because of this cause.
Donald Trump‘s personal hatred of Don Lemon and his completely wrong order to arrest him for reporting something Donald Trump didn’t like.
Donald Trump is fighting to strip away the First Amendments rights of the media when they report the truth about him.
And he called Don Lemon dumb???
The scariest thing about Donald Trumps pathological, delusional thinking as it gets worse from his clearly obvious progressive dementia is that this small incident is a perfect example of how Donald Trump thinks ALL THE TIME.
He is the most powerful man on the planet and he‘s also a deranged psycho path.
When he is removed from office, most likely in 2027 but possibly in 2026, we should all be concerned about what he will do in desperation. in an attempt to try to maintain power.
And to make it even dumber, at the same event Donald Trump had a former president of the NAACP arrested for the same really dumb reason that Don Lemon was arrested for.
He’s delusional.
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-demands-release-nekima-levy-armstrong
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 22, 2026
Contact: Chyna Fields, cfields@naacpnet.org
MINNEAPOLIS – Former NAACP Minneapolis Chapter President, Nekima Levy Armstrong Esq., along with Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and U.S. Army veteran, William Kelly, were improperly arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Agents. Their arrests violated their constitutional rights and NAACP demands their immediate release.
Ms. Armstrong and her fellow demonstrators gathered peacefully at a church over the pastor's alleged leadership within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protests follow the increase in ICE activity and the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good.
In response to their unlawful arrests, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson released the following statement:
"The NAACP demands the immediate release of Nekima Armstrong and her fellow protestors. The only reason the FBI and DHS arrested them is that they didn't like what they had to say.
"We live in a country where free speech and the ability to peacefully protest are fundamental rights. But once again, the President of the United States has weaponized federal agents against American citizens to be his personal enforcers.
"We're watching in real time as the Department of Justice, once responsible for upholding the law, is being twisted into the Department of Vengeance, attacking anyone who displeases the president.
"ICE agents cover their faces, terrorize our neighbors, and attack anyone who gets in their way. This is straight out of the KKK's playbook.
"Not stopping there, the White House shared an AI-edited photo of Nekima, depicting her in tears and scared when, in actuality, she was poised, determined, and unafraid.
"This Administration wants you to believe our community is afraid, but we will never be shaken. And we will never be broken."
NAACP General Counsel Janette McCarthy-Wallace added:
"The arrests of Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and William Kelly likely violated their First Amendment – their right to peaceful protest and free association, Fourth Amendment – their protection against illegal searches and seizures, and Fifth Amendment – their right to due process under the law.
"The NAACP is not aware of any alleged federal crime they committed; neither the FBI nor DHS has issued a warrant for these arrests, and there have been no related indictments. Put simply, there has been no legal explanation for these arrests, further demonstrating this Administration's ham-fisted attempts to oppress Americans."
The NAACP will continue to keep this Administration accountable and to fight for the rights due to every Black American. Visit naacp.org for more information.
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Donald Trump just picked another battle he will lose badly. He's lost his ability to evaluate, interpret and understand, even basic concepts needed to make rational decisions. He's surrounded himself entirely with loyal sycophants that have pledged their allegiance to Donald Trump who cheer for him, no matter how profoundly stupid his decisions and statements are. He listens to Fox, which is cashing in with block buster ratings by exploiting his MAGA cult. Fox reports Donald Trump's most delusional decisions to be too brilliant for the rest of us to comprehend. Manufacturing a world where the omnipotent Donald Trump is never wrong. Telling millions of captured brain MAGA viewers exactly what they wish were true..............as the United States loses it's respect around the world with the majority of its allies and faces a political rift of epic proportions at home. All of this SELF INFLICTED, ENTIRELY by Donald Trump as he makes ruinous tariff and other decisions that hurt our economy and citizens.
This is only providing Donald Trump with positive reinforcement for making even more delusional statements and making even more ruinous decisions.
And for many non MAGA people, it's accepted as the new "normal". As if hate, vengeance and unchallenged power is listed in the Constitution as the top priority for how the leader of the executive branch should rule the United States of America.
Just wait until the weather warms up. The protesting against Donald Trump will likely be unprecedented.
Even with temperatures like this, today we're having widespread protesting against ICE:
https://www.mesonet.org/weather/air-temperature/national-wind-chill-heat-index
‘You’re a loud person,’ the president sneered on Friday at ABC News’ Karen Travers. ‘Very loud. Let somebody else have a chance.’
Donald Trump once again tore into a female White House reporter on Friday, calling her a “very loud” person working for a “fake news” outlet who should give other reporters a chance to speak.
The attack on ABC News correspondent Karen Travers – which follows a growing trend of the president slamming women journalists with sexist insults – seemed to be a way for him to avoid answering a question about his stunning $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, two departments he oversees.
Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the president’s tax returns to the New York Times and received five years in prison. In 2020, the New York Times reported that Trump – despite his purported wealth – only paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and no taxes for most of the previous 15 years. At the time, Trump claimed that the story was “totally fake news.”
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Donald Trump keeps making bad thing worse and worse.
When the Wall Street Journal mentioned the birthday letter that we all know he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, he sued the WSJ for $10,000,000,000 claiming no such letter exists. Then, after the actual letter showed up with the Donald Trump signature that we all know with certainty was his, he doubled down. Instead of letting it blow over, his deranged, delusional mind with progressive dementia, conditioned by decades of being a bully and making threats, somehow thinks that threatening a lawsuit of epic proportions on the globally well respected and legally protected WSJ is going to cause people to not believe their eyes and brains and believe an unhinged lunatic.
He will lose this one badly as a no brainer decision in the court system and example of his extremely bad decision making.
Similar thing with his lawsuit of the IRS. Only in this case, the information released was done illegally. However, that information about his taxes was 100% authentic and it makes him look really, REALLY bad. So what does he do? Long after it was forgotten he greatly Amplifies the damage TO HIMSELF by drawing much more attention to it by filing a $10,000,0000,000 lawsuit against the IRS of all places, after everybody had completely forgotten about it. His mind is no longer capable of analyzing information without it being completely overwhelmed with his obsession for vengeance. Vengeance and his being convinced that his omnipotence and unlimited power can destroy everybody that ever did anything to him and crush anybody that opposes him.
We are seeing more and more and more examples of his progressive dementia. He appointed only enablers and cheerleaders that pledged their allegiance to Donald Trump so there is nothing and nobody help reign in his galactically crazy thinking, communicating and acting.
Here we go again!
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I personally don't think Kimmel is that funny but this is absurd. A president trying to silence a comic because he makes jokes about THIS president...........which is what comics do for a living.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gE8y7RkVs
10,835 views Jan 20, 2025
Pres. Trump says he will sign an executive order to "immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America."
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President Donald J Trump The White House
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to: (a) secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech;
(b) ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen;
(c) ensure that no taxpayer resources are used to engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen; and
(d) identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to censorship of protected speech.
Sec. 3. Ending Censorship of Protected Speech. (a) No Federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee, or agent may act or use any Federal resources in a manner contrary to section 2 of this order.
(b) The Attorney General, in consultation with the heads of executive departments and agencies, shall investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years that are inconsistent with the purposes and policies of this order and prepare a report to be submitted to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken based on the findings of the report.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2025.
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Donald Trump also promised NO NEW WARS and now his latest war is causing the worst global energy crisis in history.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5802997/fcc-abc-license-renewal-melania-trump-jimmy-kimmel
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This is the United States of America, folks!
Insane violations of the First Amendment by a president and his cronies of this blatantly open magnitude have never happened during my lifetime!!!!
JK’s joke was referring to DT at nearly 80 likely passing well before MT just due to biology. Seriously DT? Seriously? This is the same DT that made fun of Paul Pelosi’s serious injury? The same DT that was nasty after Mueller passed? He’s such a scum bag and an absolutely vile human being. Nobody should question why anyone feels that way as that’s an insult to their character.
Not surprisingly, Sat night press conference was a one and done!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/firing-threats-epstein-mentions-heres-110510630.html
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With so many items that are trillions of times more important than this to Americans and people in the world suffering from a Donald Trump caused global energy crisis of epic proportions, the only reason this is getting so much attention is because it generates huge ratings and sales in the news industry.
Of course an attack on the First Amendment by an authoritarian president that was elected by promising more freedom of the press and less government intervention but Donald Trump's paths of US and global wreckage are so numerous now that it makes this, in comparison less important.
The entire planet is being pummeled by massive damage from the energy crisis which should be the top headline all day long for all the news media.
The United States is connected to numerous other countries that are extraordinarily vulnerable here. This is a HUGE deal being under reported.
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The NYT did a nice story with perspective and history. I personally didn't find him that funny but recognize his talent/wit and why people liked his stuff.
This was a very sad way to end such an awesome show. I'm actually watching the last show right now after not watching it in decades. Paul McCartney is his last guest.
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Critic’s Notebook
Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” satirized politics. Then his “Late Show” confronted a moment when politics became self-satirizing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/arts/television/stephen-colbert-late-show-ending-cbs.html
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The legendary former “Late Show” host spoke with Craig Melvin ahead of the show’s last episode.
Great ending! With Paul McCartney leading the Beatles “Hello, Goodbye“ song at the end.
RIP Late Show!
McCartney is going to be 84 next month and he looks and sounds amazing for that age!
The host aired the classic Vince Guaraldi song during a segment, a move that he said could result in a lawsuit
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https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70
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The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/pentagon-fires-stars-stripes-editor.html
The firings raised questions about the Pentagon’s willingness to ensure the editorial integrity of the publication that has reported extensively on difficulties faced by military communities as the war in Iran has dragged on. The terminations came about 10 days after Stars and Stripes journalists reported on hardships that Navy sailors were facing on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier whose deployment was extended to nine months amid the war.
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The Trump-tanic
Started by metmike - May 16, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/g-s1-144112/trump-ban-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house-media
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This is turning into a comedy!
Seriously, I may focus a ton of time here to expose Donald Trump but every time he does something even more outrageous, I don't get mad or feel hate or frustrated. I celebrate because it's just another nail in the Donald Trump impeachment AND REMOVAL coffin. 99% likelihood that Donald Trump will be removed from office.
We are all living in a unique time in history folks. We are witnessing a president with 2 progressive mental diseases.
Delusions of grandeur-psychiatric and Progressive dementia-organic. Both of them are getting worse and WORSE and WORSE!
Nothing close to this has every happened in our 250 years as a country. We are living it right now in 2026. The end will come next year when the House starts the investigation into his impeachment. 100% chance that the House votes for impeachment.
Then the Senate votes. We need 15 Rs to vote for impeachment to make it a 2/3rds majority to remove Donald Trump.
The fact that the Rs running for re election right now are NOT using Donald Trump in their ads tells us how some of them will vote!!!! But its a no brainer for the R party.
Do they want another 1.5 years of this, and get decimated in the 2028 election?
Or do they want to replace Trump with President Vance and a chance for the R party to start healing and recover by late 2028?
He WILL be removed from office and we are witnessing the dynamics leading up to this historical event........every day!
A lack of impeaching Donald Trump would be devastating to the future of our country and relationships with most countries He is wrecking those relationships and greatly diminishing respect for our country around the world, so the sooner the better.
Watch what happens with Iran. They want to negotiate...........with whoever comes AFTER Donald Trump. They are doing this to punish Donald Trump before the election and whooping him badly in the department that matters the most to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is not capable of understanding that violating the first amendment ……\freedom of the press in unprecedented ways is going to cause press coverage of him TO BE WORSE!
His judgment in most realms is similarly messed up badly because he lives in a completely delusional world that features the omnipotent, Donald Trump carving out an historical legend for the world that adulates him.
He doesn't just do this to adversaries. Look what he's done to our closest ally and trading partner, Canada. Extremely pathological, irrational, counter productive thinking and actions that massively hurt him and his party the most.
AI Overview
The U.S. Constitution - First Amendment protects the freedom of the press so journalists can report news and hold the government accountable without fear of punishment. [1, 2]
What the Press Freedom Protects
Key Rules and Limits
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He has shot himself and his party in the feet so many times now, often with unforced, galactically stupid errors that they no longer have 2 solid feet to stand on!!!!
He WILL be impeached AND removed next year!
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This is a huge part of the problem. Rs in Congress that mislead and lie to justify everything that Donald Trump does. Enabling and supporting, even the most galactically absurd positions (like winning the 2020 presidential election) or claiming this current act doesn't violate the 1st Amendment.
Americans will be fixing that problem in just over a month!
By metmike - May 16, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Between the time that the Ds win the house and start the impeachment process and the time that Donald Trump is removed from office, our country will have the greatest risk in it's 250 year history because there IS NO LIMIT to what Donald Trump will do, along with the thousands of those in key offices that were appointed after they pledged allegiance to Donald Trump!
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1/3/27: potential biggest threat to US democracy! Started by WxFollower - Sept. 15, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
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This is just another nail in the Donald Trump impeachment and removal coffin! If the Rs would have been smart and not so afraid of Donald Trump's absolute power over the minds of tens of millions in his MAGA cult, THEY would have impeached him. Now they will suffer the consequences in 44 days.
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In the 2024 election, I voted for all the Rs to protest Biden, including voting for Donald Trump(that I justified because I believed him about ending the war in Ukraine fast-after vowing not to vote because of both parties being messed up-then my wife said "Are you kidding me? You spend all that time on MarketForum discussing politics and you're not even going to vote!!!").
The only R that I will vote for this time is one that speaks out against Donald Trump.
The launch came after Trump announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
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How to reinforce MAGA cult control!
Started by metmike - Aug. 26, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/122419/
Re: Re: Re: How to reinforce MAGA cult control! By metmike - Sept. 21, 2026, noon
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Trump always knows what to say...........to wreck his own party!
Started by metmike - Sept. 10, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
https://newrepublic.com/article/215693/trump-press-ban-backfires-aides-leak-humiliating-motive-behind
Meanwhile, Axios reports that Trump advisers confide that they fear he’s feeling “powerless” as his losses pile up and a likely midterm defeat approaches. He’s retreating “to his worst impulses,” and this “helps explain” his press ban, per Axios: Because Trump feels his power slipping away, he “lashed out” at these organizations and banned them. That’s surely correct, and it’s humiliating. We talked to Kristy Parker, counsel at Protect Democracy. She explains why Trump’s ban probably won’t survive the courts, why his lashing out at moments of feeling powerless makes him so dangerous,
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This is exactly why I insist that our country will be at an extraordinarily high risk next year ahead of Donald Trump's impeachment and removal. There have been thousands of people appointed to key positions that swore allegiance to Donald Trump to get the job.
Trump has been refusing to abide by this court order so far today! This is one of the reasons that make Donald Trump so dangerous.
When he is impeached and LEGALLY removed from office next year, he will likely use his control of thousands of minions that pledged allegiance to Donald Trump to try to hang on to power!!!!!
He didn't have this control on January 6, 2021, so his attempt to overturn the most proven valid presidential election in history failed miserably. VP Pence did not cooperate, for instance. VP Vance, clearly can't be counted on to behave the same way and we know that his entire cabinet are puppets of Donald Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/24/nx-s1-5979582/judge-order-trump-restore-access-white-house
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/trump-press-lawsuit-ruling-white-house-access
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This is what makes Donald Trump such a dangerous man.
When he loses elections or loses court orders, he believes that he is above the law. Above the Constitution.
Like with the lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for $5,000,000,000 because they reported on the birthday letter he gifted to his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. He claimed no such letter existed.
Then they published the exact letter with his exact signature and he doubled down, claiming the letter was made up and that was not his signature and that the Epstein files had exonerated him........when the fact is that he and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein preyed together on the type of women/girls that they were BOTH attracted to.
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By metmike - Feb. 18, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
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The Supreme Court ruled that his tariffs were illegal and what does he do?
Issue new tariffs.
Watch out in 2027, especially during the impeachment hearings because Donald Trump will be a desperate man that uses his power and control to do things that will EXCEED his attempt to overturn the 2020 election with an Insurrection on January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump has much MUCH more power this time!
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By metmike - Sept. 15, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
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1/3/27: potential biggest threat to US democracy!
Started by WxFollower - Sept. 15, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
Watched Donald Trump's favorite station, Fox tonight for a short while.
According to Mark Levin, the democrats are the party of hate, the party of Hamas, the party of Communism that will ban Christianity and appoint a dictator like China. They will destroy the Constitution and electoral voting system and pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges.
Donald Trump on the other hand is all about our democracy and Constitution. He cares about us. He knows that the Founding Father's, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM were Christians and his agenda is based on the Christian and Hebrew bibles.
The guy before him had the man that captured Saddam Hussein on. According to his guest, he knew Saddam to lie about everything his entire life..........with one exception. When being captured, Saddam told him that he didn't trust Iran and he knows that Saddam was telling the truth about that.
Now Fox is so desperate to defend Donald Trump's actions with regards to Iran that they have resorted to using the words of Saddam Hussein after he was captured to do it.
This sort of reporting is not only ok for Donald Trump but he appointed 23 people from Fox to be in his cabinet or other key positions.
Pirro is the 23rd current or former Fox News employee Trump has recruited for his administration since taking office earlier this year. However, his relationship with the network runs far deeper and longer than just this year nominees.
The highest profile picks have been Pete Hegseth, one of the hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend, who took over the Pentagon as secretary of defense.
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This seems like it's a fictional story, made up with crazy facts, characters and dynamics for entertainment of readers of the book or viewers of the movie or fake reality show.
But its actually the real world created by and surrounding Donald Trump!!!
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11pm: Levin just signed off by telling us that if the democrats take over the House and the Senate and Benjamin Netanyahu is removed from power, he is not just worried about the future of the United States and Israel but he fears for all of Western Civilization.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-targets-fox-news-coverage-171243000.html
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How dare Fox veer from MAGA propaganda!!!
The investigation into the five networks — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News — is underway, and civil investigative demands were sent out Friday, a Justice Department spokesperson said.