Daily Take: How Authoritarians Like Trump, Orbán, & Putin Take Down a Free Press
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Trump is right now following a road blazed before him by multiple authoritarians and dictators who took over democracies in recent years…
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| 0:00.0 | How authoritarians like Trump, Orban, and Putin take down a free press. |
| 0:05.0 | Donald Trump took the first step to extinguishing the free and independent press in America yesterday |
| 0:11.0 | when federal judge and Bush appointee |
| 0:13.0 | Cecilia Altona Aga ruled that his defamation lawsuit |
| 0:17.5 | against George Stephanopoulos and ABC News could go forward. |
| 0:21.2 | She ruled that, quote, a reasonable jury could conclude plaintiff was |
| 0:24.9 | defamed and as a result dismissal is inappropriate. Stephanopoulos had asked |
| 0:29.6 | Republican representative Nancy Mays how she could continue to support Trump |
| 0:33.7 | when he had been quote found liable for rape. Trump is claiming that question |
| 0:38.6 | liable him and asking for damages that could run into the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 0:45.2 | You'd think he doesn't have a case. |
| 0:47.0 | When a jury of his peers found in favor of E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against |
| 0:50.9 | Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan noted, quote, |
| 0:53.0 | the jury's finding that Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms. Carroll implicitly |
| 0:57.5 | determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally. |
| 1:00.5 | In other words, that Mr. Trump did in fact rape Miss Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law. |
| 1:10.0 | Nonetheless, Judge Al-Tanaga is letting Trump's lawsuit against the reporter and news organization go forward. |
| 1:16.5 | This is a very, very big deal that could signal the beginning of the end for a free and open press in America. |
| 1:23.0 | Trump is right now following a road blazed before him |
| 1:25.7 | by multiple authoritarians and dictators |
| 1:27.8 | who took over democracies in recent years. |
| 1:32.0 | When Vladimir Putin took over Russia in 1999 there was a thriving, diverse, and free press in that country. |
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