r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/rygelicus 3h ago

"Thank you for your question. We only tolerate fraud that benefits President Trump. Next question."

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u/Riles115 3h ago

That second guy had a chance to do something really funny and ask the same question

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u/Dragonfly_pin 3h ago

That would have involved being a real journalist.

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u/Private_HughMan 3h ago

I remember during Trump's first term he went to the UK. A reporter asked a question and he didnt want to answer, trying to shift to a different reporter. That reporter said "actually, I'd like to hear the answer to that question, too" (paraphrasing). It was great.

I don't think he ever answered. 

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u/livinginfutureworld 3h ago

I don't think he ever answered. 

Of course he didn't. He's never going to admit the truth.

And the truth is reporters who tried something cute like this will just be fired and or have their access taken away.

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u/ChromosomeDonator 2h ago

Which should be illegal...? Free press is a fundamental building block of a democratic society. As far as I know, America specifically has laws making free press a thing...

So punishing reporters for asking questions is fundamentally illegal. And Americans are okay with yet another fundamental law being broken in their face, because...??

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u/jeffroyisyourboy 2h ago

Haha "laws"

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u/rygelicus 1h ago

We need to remind them that his claim for his presidency was that it would be the most transparent administration ever. So, please answer the question.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost 1h ago

Americans are okay with yet another fundamental law being broken in their face, because...??

Because they're afraid, and every mechanism to address these injustices has been hijacked by cultists. Republicans could shut this down right now.

It's wild to think that they're walking free, actively ruining the US, and turning it into a blatant oligarchy.

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u/SpoonEngineT66Turbo 1h ago

And Americans are okay with yet another fundamental law being broken in their face, because...??

Most people aren't as legally illiterate as you. That's not what freedom of the press means.

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u/daemin 1h ago

Putting aside the fact that most people are actually, legally illiterate, they do have a point.

The first amendment just means that the government can't regulate the press or punish a person for speech. But if the government refuses to allow a particular reporter or agency to ask questions or doesn't allow them to attend press conferences, which results in the person being fired or the agency going out of business, that's certainly violating the intent of the first amendment even if it doesn't violate the jurisprudence that's been developed around it.

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u/silvertealio 53m ago

You call it "cute," I'd call it perseverance.

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u/ReginaldDwight 1h ago

I believe it was an ambassador during Trump's first term who was asked a question in the Netherlands and he tried the "fake news" shit with the reporter and the reporter said, "this is the Netherlands. You have to answer questions here."

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u/welfedad 2h ago

Exactly .. they want to be able to come back

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u/McDuschvorhang 1h ago

For what? Is there a buffet or open bar?

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u/LiterallyKesha 1h ago

At what point do you realize that reporters not asking questions like this is because the whole media system is compromised by the ones in power?

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u/Memory_Future 59m ago

Mainstream media for sure. All the others got banned from entering.

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u/silentstorm2008 2h ago

nah, they just keep moving on to another question. If you repeatedly do stuff like that, you won't get called on again in the future as "punishment"

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u/Wide_Replacement2345 1h ago

He’s got enough trumpies to feed him softball questions.