observed and noted that trump completely dominated the conversation, he commanded the room, and he decided when and what would be discussed. so let s stop here, right? let s let that sink in. an anti-free press politician takes control of a press event hosted by a network and a company he hated so much when he was president that he actually sought to use his own justice department to take retaliatory measures against it. so now the company s part of the story, too. cnn recently very publicly parted ways with anchor don lemon. it came in the aftermath of a comment he made on his broadcast that was viewed by his managers as misogynistic. those very same managers are the people who aired trump s misogynistic attacks last night on e. jean carroll that could invite further defamation suits. here is part of what trump said that is almost certainly being reviewed by lawyers today. quote, i never met this woman.
side. in this case that would be russia. trump did not take ukraine s side when asked about the war between russia and ukraine. his autocratic anti free press, retaliatory embrace of practices around companies that don t fall in line, which is actually the patient zero to what desantis is trying to do with disney in florida, has an active, on going manifestation in that his instinct is to align himself and ally himself with putin at a time of war. and in addition to not taking ukraine s side at a time of war, he also would not acknowledge what virtually everyone does, that vladimir putin is a war criminal. he simply can t do it. he will not ever find himself aligned with those who value democracy because he is an autocrat. i think what was startling to me
our on going conversation about platforming dangerously media matters is reporting that tomorrow and saturday trump s miami hotel will host two anti-semites who have promoted pro adolf hitler propaganda and spread overwhelmingly anti-semitic views. scott mckay has claimed that jewish people orchestrated 9/11 while trump doral speaker charlie ward who also streams a show on rumble has shared posts praising hitler for warning us about judaism. scheduled to speak alongside mckay and ward are numerous members of trump s inner circle
donna. another thing mr. zaslav says in that interview is we re not advocacy. to take eddie s diagnosis, what brought down fox, what cost it $800 million wasn t decades of advocacy on behalf of republicans and republican causes, they were humming along. what brought them down is knowingly publishing falsities with actual malice. so the slippery slope that cnn stands on today is when it looks at these numbers when trump certainly reaches out himself or through his surrogate and says let s do it again, this is a win-win guys, what do they do next? i think that s the question. although we know what they ve done now. there s nothing that we saw last night that cnn did not know was going to happen. we all knew it, and they knew it, too. and they decided to go forward anyway. we had already heard in the
this. he s an enemy of the united states, our values, our interests and the security of the american people. of course it does. that s why i don t intend to support him for the republican nomination. who are you going to support? i haven t decided yet. it won t be him. where do i begin? so that was a republican senator, senator todd young of indiana. it always starts with one. picking up on what andrew and i have been talking about, putin is a war criminal, putin green-lit the squad that carried out the atrocities in bucha based on news accounts that have been available worldwide. he s trump s guy. that s not hyperbole. that s a known known. pull the thread that you write about today in the bulwark,