Famed Journalist Says Press ‘Shouldn’t
Be Neutral’ On Trump, Warns Of ‘Assassinations’
During 2nd Term
Daily Caller,
by
Nicole Silverio
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
5/14/2024 5:14:19 PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof wrote in his new book that the American press should not remain “neutral” when it comes to covering former President Donald Trump because of the alleged threat he poses to democracy. (snip) In his book, he warns about Trump and his allies’ alleged attempts to “undermine democracy” and establish “populist authoritarianism,” according to CNN. Kristof also argues that, in a second term, Trump could weaponize the federal government “to punish or intimidate news organizations” and even carry out “assassinations.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
seesfarwoman 5/14/2024 5:20:37 PM (No. 1717876)
What is "populist suthoritarianism?" It makes no sense.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/14/2024 5:31:58 PM (No. 1717877)
Kristof has always been a total piece of floating sewage. This proves it beyond any doubt.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
winmag 5/14/2024 5:38:13 PM (No. 1717881)
This from a pearl clutching beta male libtard. Go change in the girls locker room pal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 5/14/2024 5:39:32 PM (No. 1717884)
If any assassinations occurred during a 2nd Trump term, the Trumpistas would be the victims, not the perpetrators.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/14/2024 5:52:44 PM (No. 1717886)
The only assassination that worries me is the assasination of the President.
The Democrats are that desperate.
If anything Trump will save the Democracy that democrats are trying to restore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/14/2024 5:54:23 PM (No. 1717887)
Restore should be destroy. I got discombobulated thinking about Trump trying to restore America to its' former greatness.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 5/14/2024 5:54:51 PM (No. 1717888)
When has the press ever been neutral re Donald J Trump?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/14/2024 5:59:32 PM (No. 1717890)
Famed? Kristof?
That drooling, lunatic, leftist weenie?
THAT Kristof?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/14/2024 6:03:48 PM (No. 1717895)
The Pulitzer Prize is given out for fiction and bogus stories now. Doesn't really mean anything.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/14/2024 6:03:48 PM (No. 1717896)
First, this was on the Clown News Network, so that's about all you need to know about the credibility or reliability of any such statements.
Second, it didn't happen during 45's previous term, and it won't happen in his 47 presidential term.
The Left is losing it and making wild claims in hopes people may be stupid enough to believe such drivel.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/14/2024 6:04:44 PM (No. 1717897)
Liberals are nothing if not predictable. Projection is almost like breathing, to them. This guy has just admitted the Deep State and the Dems intend to kill Donald Trump. They want power and he's NOT going to get in their way, if they can help it. He's not going to change the way power is used.
Understand, Trump is at the mercy of the structures in place. They murdered JFK despite secret service. People can be compromised. Oswald may have had no idea JFK was going to be shot, and that he was merely a patsy. We are dealing with a generational conspiracy that may have thousands of members inside and outside of Washington. It's not going to be easy. And we need to make it clear, they won't survive killing Trump.
We either cleanse the nation blodlessly, under Trump, or prepare to have a civil war that will make any past revolution look like a walk in the park. I don't see any other results... Except bend our necks and welcome slavery.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 5/14/2024 6:09:35 PM (No. 1717901)
Some observations:
Pulitzer Prizes are as meaningless as Nobel Prizes (see Krugman, Arafat, Obama, et al.)
The press is to fairness as Oprah is to a size 2
"Democracy" as defined by democrats is the rest of us shutting up and doing what *they* say
Kristof is worried that Trump may do what democrats have been doing since Obama supercharged the deep state (if so, Gitmo will need to add a couple of wings)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jasmine 5/14/2024 6:15:50 PM (No. 1717909)
When was the last time our worthless media was neutral on anything remotely respectful of conservative or pro-American views? Isn't it interesting that a famed journalist openly encourages supposedly professional journalists to sit in judgment of Donald Trump as a "threat" to America, while ignoring the dementia ridden fool in the White House who opened our borders to 10 million unvetted illegal aliens and counting? If the US president won't control our borders, the cartels will.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
danu 5/14/2024 6:24:20 PM (No. 1717916)
this kind of inflammatory, incite-the-crazees-talk should entitle him to a lawsuit, or jail term.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
judy 5/14/2024 6:41:27 PM (No. 1717923)
The so called press is irrelevant.,,Trump is winning!!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/14/2024 7:33:08 PM (No. 1717948)
"The only reason Hitler was able to rise to power was...not enough "Famed Journalists" wrote headlines comparing him to Hitler."
People seem to forget, or never even heard that Kristoff quit his NYT gig, which he had ALL, of his working life to run for Governor of Oregon. This was right after Biden was elected. He was recruited by the Dem machine there...his mother is a longtime Oregon Party apparatchik....The only problem? He did not LIVE in the state, and even the state mainstream Dems rallied to keep him off the ballot, he fought it all of the way through the courts and up to the State supreme court which UNANIMOUSLY ruled he was not "Fit for Office, not a Resident". Without fanfare or much coverage by the end of 2022 he was back living in Scarsdale and running the NYT(at least the sunday edition) again.
He calls Trump dictatorial but...he wrote several times about how he thought the best social structure for the entire US Society would be "The US Military", total chain of command structure, with ALL incomes, activities, housing , education, food, medical, and social services allocated and provided under the mandated command of the the General Staff.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 5/14/2024 7:48:11 PM (No. 1717957)
Since when has the MSM EVER been neutral toward Trump?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/14/2024 8:03:27 PM (No. 1717965)
The only assassination we need to be concerned with the attempt on President Donald John Trump by a dim or a enraged lefty. I have no faith in the Secret Service attempting to stop it but rather they will run for cover to save their sorry azzes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dwa 5/14/2024 8:11:19 PM (No. 1717966)
The mental illness in Democrats gets worse every minute.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
downnout 5/14/2024 8:39:08 PM (No. 1717978)
Mr. Kristof should do a little research into the weaponization conjured up by the Democrats. They are authoritarian and tyrants right to their black-hearted core.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/14/2024 9:01:04 PM (No. 1717991)
This puke getting the pulled surprise means exactly nothing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/14/2024 11:57:16 PM (No. 1718046)
Ah yes, another Democ'RAT following Joseph Goebbel's rule:
"Accuse your Opponent of That which YOU are actually DOING!"
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 5/15/2024 5:11:38 AM (No. 1718099)
Nick, are you talking about Republicans or Democrats? Seems to me that much of what you are predicting is currently happening.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/15/2024 5:14:21 AM (No. 1718100)
Progressive demonrats are nothing more but class A morons.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/15/2024 5:41:43 AM (No. 1718110)
This article also points out the garbage that the Pulitzer has become. The "weaponization" of Government is already begun, you Asshat.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
homefry 5/15/2024 7:56:22 AM (No. 1718170)
Kristof also argues that, in a second term, Trump could weaponize the federal government “to punish or intimidate news organizations” and even carry out “assassinations.”
Pull your head outa your yonder go corner kristof. You have just described the dim-0 party to a T!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/15/2024 9:39:41 AM (No. 1718241)
Trump as a dictator is preferable to Biden as the savior of "our democracy."
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/15/2024 9:55:28 AM (No. 1718259)
Not that it means anything but it was not until the Obama presidency that gun sales in this country began to skyrocket and that trend hasn't stopped during this vegetable era. Civilian gun ownership and presidents with totalitarian tendencies do not mix.
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