Now Trump wants to execute journalists who won't lie about his Iran War

[B.See]

Trump launches new threat to journalists in late night outburst - Alternet via MSN

Donald Trump late Sunday floated “treason” charges against media outlets that he accused of reporting false information about the Iran war as the human and economic costs of his illegal military assault continued to mount.

In a tirade posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that media outlets he accused of circulating “fake news” should “be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information.” The maximum penalty for treason in the US is death.

Trump’s latest attack on the US media came after his Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, threatened Saturday to pull the broadcasting licenses of media outlets he accused of “running hoaxes and news distortions.” Carr did not provide specific examples.

Trump said Sunday that he was “thrilled to see” Carr’s threat, railing against “Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic” news organizations.

[leftstreet]

1. Bombing Iran for Israel - not treason

Reporting about it - treason

okay then

[Vinca]

2. How about treason for allowing Russia to sell oil after they help Iran target Americans?????

[Cirsium]

5. Careful there

The know-it-alls will show to explain this all to you in the most condescending terms. "Technically blah blah blah." Apparently Trump can accuse us of treason, but we can't accuse him of treason because "actually, blah blah blah."

[TomSlick]

9. As one of the know-it-alls that has often quoted the definition of treason in the Constitution,

the Constitution is not a technicality. Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution because the definition is important. The definition protects us from treason charges for angering Trump.

The fact that Trump throws threats of treason around is a poor excuse for Democrats doing so.

Trump's actions are disloyal, stupid, possibly espionage, etc., but not treason. Neither is pissing-off Trump.

[Cirsium]

12. The definition!

No definition protects us from anything. The protections supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution rest upon the good will of those in power. Absent that it is meaningless.

Arguing the definition of a term based on the Constitution is nothing but pedantry.

Fredrick Douglass:

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . .

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.

The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart

[TomSlick]

14. Pedantry? The definition of treason is not a minor detail.

The Constitution forbids conviction of Treason for any action other than waging war against the US or aiding an enemy waging war against the US. Even the most MAGAt members of SCOTUS can't talk a way around that.

Trump is talking nonsense with his threats of treason charges. Democrats are smarter than that.

[Cirsium]

15. Well, you schooled us

I don't think anyone expects Trump to be tried for treason, nor will some definition protect any of us from harm at the hands of the regime.

Speaking of definitions...

Pedantic: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously scholarly

Pedant: one who is unimaginative, rigid, or overly concerned with minor details in the presentation or use of knowledge

Pedantry: slavish attention to rules, details, etc.; the habit to engage in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details

Mansplaining: Talking to someone and suddenly feeling like you're back in a fifth-grade classroom with the know-it-all kid explaining how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly? Except now, it's not about insects; it's about literally anything you already know, and the "explainer" just happens to be a dude who thinks he's on stage at 'Mansplainapalooza.' Welcome to mansplaining: where condescension is king, and yes, it often wears a gendered crown.

[TomSlick]

17. I agree with the definition of pedantry.

Pedantry: slavish attention to rules, details, etc.; the habit to engage in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details. My point is that the US Constitution is not a petty rule or detail.

Unless it is unacceptable for males to disagree with you, the plea of mansplaining is sexist.

[BattleRow]

16. What magnificent eloquence!

Yep,everybody wants to go to heaven,but nobody wants to die.

I once read that chaos is the natural order of things,and it requires effort to create order.

You cannot substitute a wishbone for a backbone...and earnest struggle.

[City Lights]

3. He should start with Fox "News."

They've been feeding their viewers a steady diet of bullshit for decades.

[raccoon]

4. Batshit cuckoo.

[ffr]

6. To all those unserious voters who voted for this guy, please use contraception.

As you can see, we have too many of people like you already, idiots who know not what they're doing in the ballot box.

These fascist threats must stop! This is not healthy for our country.

[twodogsbarking]

7. You had the Capitol violently attacked and then tried to wrestle the steering wheel from your driver

to go watch. Treason? You betcha.

[erronis]

8. Can I guess which court he'd want to hear his charges of treason? Would Pirro possibly be involved?

Or would there just be a secret Star Chamber hidden on a remote military base (or in Texas) that could render a verdict in 2-3 minutes?

[talking-liberally]

10. Guilt by accusation.

He has committed treason by aiding and abetting our enemy, Russia, who is assisting Iran. The accuse others of what they do.

[Initech]

11. Treason? Oh go blow it out your ass, Donny!

[B.See]

18. Remember, this is the guy who

gave a medal of freedom award to a murdered hate preaching demagogue who they billed as a 'champion of free speech.'

Apparently, 'free speech' applies only to THEM.

[GAJMac]

13. He didn't have to threaten them...

The billionaire media owners will take care of the threats, and if necessary, the firings.

[Rob H.]

19. "brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information."

He disseminates false information literally all the time. Charge him first.