Article in The Intercept by Natasha Lennard, 5/20/25

Headline: “Trump is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal”

Subhead:  “You’d never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack.”

“You may have come across a common thought experiment that asks how the establishment U.S. media might cover a given domestic news event were it to occur in a maligned foreign country. The latest disturbing news from Donald Trump’s Justice Department, for example, might be framed as something like: ‘Trumpist regime targets opposition politician with fabricated charges for carrying out oversight.’

“Instead, the typical mainstream reports were muted on the Justice Department’s obscene decision Monday night to charge New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with ‘assaulting’ a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer when the member of Congress attempted to conduct an oversight visit earlier this month at a massive, new ICE detention facility in her hometown of Newark . . .”

Read the full article at: 

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media/