How Trump's free speech crackdown is angering the Right
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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As more details emerge about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk and more questions about his motivation, one thing is pretty clear - he is not obviously part of any "domestic terror network" of the kind Trump and his administration is now pursuing. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson is going after the Attorney General for her threats to free (hate) speech. How did the administration get themselves into this mess?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech. |
| 0:16.2 | We probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. |
| 0:20.0 | It's hate. |
| 0:20.5 | You have a lot of hate in your |
| 0:21.6 | heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $16 million recently for a form of hate speech, |
| 0:29.1 | right? Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech. So maybe they'll have to go after you. |
| 0:35.9 | That is the President of the United States going after a journalist, a reporter, for asking a |
| 0:42.2 | question. He sounds hurt because he was asked about comments by his attorney general that hate |
| 0:50.9 | speech in America would be shut down. What is Trump doing? He's shutting down all kinds of speech. |
| 0:58.8 | What happens now? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:03.6 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopel. |
| 1:08.3 | Now, as we're recording on Wednesday afternoon, the pictures of pomp and ceremony are flashing on every screen. |
| 1:14.0 | Donald Trump has arrived at Windsor Castle. |
| 1:16.4 | He's met senior royals, the Prince and Princess of Wales, |
| 1:19.4 | and he's due at the state banquet tonight with the King. |
| 1:22.3 | The contrast, in essence, could not be starker |
| 1:26.4 | with what he's leaving behind in the US. An absolute |
| 1:30.4 | powder keg following the murder of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. We're going to be looking |
| 1:36.4 | into what we know about the alleged killer and the messages and the motives that he may have |
| 1:41.6 | had. But none of that, curiously, seems at all relevant right now to those in |
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