Article in Daily Kos by Lisa Needham, 7/1/25
Headline: “Now Trump’s weaponizing the DOJ in his war on the media”
“President Donald Trump is simply not going to stand for the media reporting anything he doesn’t like, and he’s going to use every tool in his toolbox to make that happen. If that means prosecuting media outlets, he’s down. If it means suing them, he’s all in. And if it means gutting nonpartisan government media, he’ll do it. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Edward Helmore, 7/1/25
Headline: “Trump team threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-tracking app”
Subhead: “Kristi Noem says ‘we’re working with [DoJ] to see if we can prosecute them’ while president fumes over Iran reporting”
“Donald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
“Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip . . . the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock.
“ ‘We’re working with Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them,’ Noem said . . . We’re going to actually go after them and prosecute them. What they’re doing is illegal.’ . . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/trump-kristi-noem-cnn-threat
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Article in Alternet by Carl Gibson, 6/30/35
Headline: ” ‘Why not the press?’ Trump may use this century-old law to prosecute and jail journalists”
Subhead: “A new report suggests that President Donald Trump may soon be setting his sights on the Fourth Estate, and his administration is already allegedly looking for a ‘test case’ to see how much it can get away with in the courts.”
“That’s according to a Monday article in Rolling Stone, which reported that unnamed sources close to the White House say Trump is considering the Espionage Act to prosecute journalists who report on leaks obtained from inside the administration. . .”
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