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Bulwark Takes

We Have Receipts! Dissecting the GOP’s War on Free Speech.

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Republicans used to say they were the party of free speech. Not anymore. Will Saletan breaks down how Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr have flipped their stance on free speech since the Charlie Kirk shooting. From defending Tucker Carlson’s Holocaust-denying guests to demanding comedians be silenced, the GOP’s hypocrisy is on full display.

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Hey, it's Will Salatan from the bulwark. So we got to talk about this crackdown on free speech by the Republican Party.

1:07.3

You probably saw that last night, Donald Trump turned up the heat on ABC to get rid of

1:13.8

Jimmy Kimmel. So what I want to do here is step back and show you how Trump and his party

1:20.2

have turned against free speech since Charlie Kirk got shot. It's been a total about face and it's very, very dangerous.

1:29.3

First, let me show you what Kimmel said last week that pissed off Republicans.

1:35.3

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize

1:40.3

this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.

1:44.2

So that's not great what Kimmel said.

1:47.1

He was wrong to say that in a way that implied that the shooter was MAGA.

1:52.8

But the response from the right was off the wall.

1:56.7

They tried to force Kimmel off the air, and they succeeded.

2:01.5

They threatened ABC and ABC suspended Kimmel.

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