After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn
It has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime assault on free speech and a free press on the back of the assassination.
Since Kirk’s death, the president and his top team have:
forced a private media company to suspend late-night TV star Jimmy Kimmel for inaccurate comments he made about Kirk’s suspected shooter;
threatened other TV networks with losing their licences should they say things Trump doesn’t like;
vowed to prosecute “hate speech” that is fully protected under the first amendment;
declared antifa a terrorist organisation in an indiscriminate attack on political ideology;
and told journalists covering the Pentagon that they will have their access revoked unless they agree to restrictions on their reporting.