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Did Obama jail any journalists?

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  1. chris155au

    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    I've heard this talking point from conservative commentators, but is it true? I know that Obama SPIED on journalists such as James Rosen and the Associated Press, but surely he did not JAIL any of them!
     
    chris155au, Jan 25, 2021
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    chris155au, Jan 25, 2021
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    I don't recall Obama criminally prosecuting any journalist, but he spied on them, illegally wire tapped some, illegally hacked the computers of some and proposed putting federal overseers in the editorial room of major newspapers and broadcasters.
     
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    Obama actually did far worse things to journalists than Trump ever did. All he did was calling the lying ones, fake news. Whoopedy doo. Obama actually went after people who he didn't like.
     
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    Exactly! And yet we're told that Trump was the REAL threat to the media! One of the newspapers had a headline after the Biden inauguration which said, "We made it" as if they were lucky to survive Trump after being on the brink of being shut down by him! :roflol:
     
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    Rogue states like Russia and Turkey imprison journalists.
    Countries of rule of law (like the US) don't do that.
     
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    And yet we're told that Trump was the REAL threat to the media! One of the newspapers had a headline after the Biden inauguration which said, "We made it" as if they were lucky to survive Trump after being on the brink of being shut down by him! :roflol:
     
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    Trump treated journalist worse than any President in my lifetime

    and he supported the butchering of a journalist all to distract from his daughter using personal email - Trump was a sick man

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...l-possible-to-be-shocked-by-trumps-presidency

    "He defended Saudi Arabia over the slaughter of dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi as a wheeze to distract attention from a minor scandal involving his daughter Ivanka’s use of a private email account. And that are just the first scrapings from Bolton’s account"
     
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    Which journalist did he spy on?

    Bolton's book!:roflol:
     
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    I do no think what happened to the journalist or the way Trump responded to it is a laughing matter
     
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    You don't KNOW how Trump responded!
     
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    Which journalist did he spy on?
     
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    actually we Americans do know how Trump responded, maybe you don't
     
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    he spied on lawyers, look what happened to Stormy's lawyer... not sure how many others he spied on
     
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    Can you support this claim? Also, we're talking about journalists, not lawyers! :roflol:
     
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    From Bolton?
     
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    we know how he responded, that is public info.... why he responded that way came from Bolton

    they knew they had Trump on their side

    "Putin, Saudi Crown Prince high-five at G-20 summit"

     
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    we know Trump's FBI was tapping Stormy's lawyers phone - it's public info
     
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    Then you should be able to provide a link to a relevant news story!
     
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    Okay... how is Putin relevant exactly?
     
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    they arrested him because of what they heard him say on the phone when they were tapping him, don't you know how to do a google search?
     
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    Trump is Putin's puppet
     
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    Oh, so THAT'S why Trump armed the Ukrainians with DEADLY weapons! :roflol:
     
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