Ayman Mohyeldin: Trump and his allies have 'brutal' plans for free speech in second term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "But just one month after his election victory, the so-called free speech candidate is threatening to go after a cornerstone of the First Amendment, the free press: "They [the media] like us much better now, I think," Trump said recently at the New York Stock Exchange after Time magazine named him person of the year.
58% : The owner of X, who will be in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, fancies himself a free speech absolutist.
52% : "I will bring back free speech in America because it's been taken away," Trump said at a rally in September.
50% : Starting with Kash Patel, whom Trump would like to lead the FBI.
41% : ""Donald Trump is the candidate of the First Amendment," JD Vance told the crowd at another rally in October.
41% : And it's all in service of Trump, a man who has called for the jailing of anyone who desecrates the American flag.
33% : "If they don't, then we'll just have to take them on again, and we don't want to do that," Trump added.
32% : "The idea that Trump and his allies are free speech champions was always absurd.
25% : Upon endorsing Trump, Kennedy argued it was the Democrats, not the Republicans, who were the ones silencing people they disagreed with.

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