Trump BANS Free Speech - This IS NOT A Drill
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | Teas and Cs Apply. |
| 0:32.3 | Oh dear, oh dear. Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to use the assassination of Charlie Kirk to accelerate |
| 0:38.7 | their plans to destroy democracy, destroy the opposition and build an overtly authoritarian state. |
| 0:45.1 | Now, whether they succeed or not isn't certain, but it is clearly their plan. |
| 0:49.4 | Going even further than the regime in Hungary, which is a blueprint for the international far right, |
| 0:55.2 | where Victor Orban has destroyed democracy in a meaningful sense. |
| 0:59.2 | Remember when the far right claimed to be champions of free speech? |
| 1:01.9 | Yeah, this was a lie. |
| 1:03.4 | We said it was a lie, and we were right. |
| 1:06.0 | It is always the case, has always been the case that it's a lie. |
| 1:09.5 | It's a nonsense of ruse to protect hateful |
| 1:12.0 | incendiary speech against minorities from even being challenged, because they would portray |
| 1:15.7 | even verbal pushback against such speech as an attack on free speech. Now, a couple of weeks |
| 1:21.1 | before Trump became president on a far more extreme platform than his first term, I warned |
| 1:25.6 | about what would happen if there was a big, this is what I wrote about what would happen if there was a big, |
| 1:28.2 | this is what I wrote, what would happen if there was a big crisis during his presidency, |
| 1:32.6 | such as a big terrorist attack or two of being a protest, noting his desire in his first term |
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