Daily Take: If the Truth Is a Crime, Then We Are All Criminals, Because Silence Is What Tyranny Depends On
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Now that Trump has threatened to prosecute CNN, what happens next will define the role of the press and the soul of this nation…
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| 0:58.1 | slash Tom. If truth is a crime, then we are all criminals because silence is what tyranny depends on. |
| 1:07.6 | History rarely announces itself. It creeps in quietly, cloaked in the language of |
| 1:12.4 | law and order, national security, and patriotism. But every now and then, it screams. Last week, |
| 1:20.2 | it screamed. Donald Trump, now seated once again behind the Resolute Desk and his Homeland Security |
| 1:26.1 | Secretary Christy Ki Noem have openly |
| 1:28.7 | threatened CNN with criminal prosecution for reporting on the existence and use of an app, |
| 1:33.9 | ICE Block, that alerts undocumented immigrants about nearby immigration and customs enforcement |
| 1:40.0 | ICE operations. This app, which is publicly available, and the reporting around it, |
| 1:46.1 | likewise rooted in public records, is suddenly being framed as a national security threat. |
| 1:52.8 | Let's be crystal clear about what is happening. The President of the United States and his |
| 1:58.6 | administration are threatening to jail journalists for doing their |
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