This is the moment that Donald Trump threatens an ABC reporter after they asked about free speech. Speaking with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Tuesday (16 September), the president appeared to become annoyed after the reporter asked him about Pam Bondi’s crackdown on “hate speech”. “A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.” After slamming ABC, the president claimed that he “wants everything to be fair” and placed blame with the “radical left who have done tremendous damage to the country”.
  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    There was period of time during Trump’s last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of “not the onion” headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.

    I remember one was like “Judge determines woman can’t prove she didn’t want to be set on fire.”

    This would fit in nicely.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Huh…I’m trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn’t want to be set on fire.

      I can’t think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also…how did THAT headline happen???

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn’t know she didn’t want to participate.