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Just after Trump finished taping a 13-minute interview on Tuesday with Dokoupil in Michigan, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt approached Dokoupil and his colleagues with a message from the president.

“He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,” Leavitt said.

“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” Dokoupil responded.

Leavitt said, “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 142 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cool. Directly violating the first amendment is fun.

[–] SheepHerder@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On top of the rest. Nobody cares enough to do something about it.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I care enough. What should I do?

[–] SheepHerder@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Perhaps the second amendement?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

What's weird is that See BS no longer cares about that kind of stuff anyway as an institution captured by the right, and that bitch is threatening them anyway.

[–] J92@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"Due to threats to our staff made by the office of the pedophile president by way of his mouthpiece, we have decided not to air an interview he made with us. Instead, here is a list of crimes his office has committed since the 20th of January last year."

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha, you joke! This is CBS we're talking about! They'll do exactly as the regime desires because that's what they've been doing for at least the past two months.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Exactly. CBS is state sponsored media

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I expected this administration to start locking up journalists last year but it turned out there really was no need. They mostly rolled over and let Trump do what he wanted.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The billionaires bought the media and real journalists quit or are being silenced

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Or died trying to cover Palestine or Ukraine.

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 50 points 8 months ago

At this rate it's Congress' limp dick energy that let's them get away with this. It's absolutely amazing how spineless the institution has become.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

The Mob "presidency".

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, when I was her age I was a complete fucking mess also.

There’s no reason to be fair, though.

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 5 points 7 months ago

She's 28 and her husband is 60. They just had a child

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what will happen to her once the trump admin falls. Please do tell me that this absolute piece of shit gets at least jail time

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Probably a cushy job at newsmax

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Yet is someone wanted to sue Trump, the Supremes would probably toss it out of court. What do you call a ruler who can never be held to account by his subjects?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago
[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Just more casual treason

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Super weird but also

Yes if I’m gonna watch one I want to see every interview with Trump unedited so…sounds ok

[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

is it bad to say dont edit interview ?

like isnt something that should be in principle offer to anybody ?

isnt the media where caught multiple time doing blatant edit ?