Now Trump’s weaponizing the DOJ in his war on the media

President Donald Trump simply will not defend the media that reports everything he doesn’t like, and he will use all the tools in his toolbox to get there. If this means continuing the media, it is down. If that means to continue them, it is everything. And if that means avoiding non -supporter government media, he will.

Tuesday, Trump and internal security secretary Kristi Noem Thrown a little anger About the CNN cover of the Iceblock application.

Yes, Noem threatened to bring the Ministry of Justice to continue CNN for having executed a segment on an iPhone application. One might think that CNN had presented a detailed tutorial on how to use obstacles to immigration and customs agents, but the coverage is Nothing more than An explanator on the inventor of the application and what the application does.

The interior security secretary, Kristi Noem, holds a press conference concerning recent demonstrations in Los Angeles on Thursday June 12, 2025. (AP photo / Etienne Laurent)
Interior Security Secretary Kristi Noem

According to Joshua Aaron, the creator of the application, Iceblock is an “early alert system” to follow ice agents nearby. Users can point out the location of the agents with notes on how to identify them, and any user within a 5 -mile department will be informed – not unlike the Google Maps functionality where you can point out that there are the coming police.

This should go without saying, but it is not illegal to determine where the ice agents are and to tell other people. And it is certainly not illegal to use an application that does it. Noem’s confusion may be understandable because she considers them as hers Personal masked secret police.

Always eager to help Trump arm the doj, the prosecutor general is already leaping made a media Against CNN on Fox News on Monday. The application, she said, “gives a message to the criminals where our federal officers are found, and he cannot do this, and we look at him, we look at him, and he would be better to pay attention.”

Still a legal genius, Bondi continued by saying that Iceblock is “not a protected speech”.

This is absolutely not the case. It is legal to make known the situations and actions of the police and even Record the police. Well, at least until the Supreme Court makes a special exception for Trump, as it is necessary to do.

The Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference on Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Ministry of Justice, Friday, June 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP photo / Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)
Attorney General Pam Bondi

After Noem threats, Trump had to participate in the action, but he is actually crazy about something completely different.

“And they can very well be prosecuted also for having made false reports on the attack in Iran. They received completely false reports. It was completely erased,” he said. “So they can very well be prosecuted for that. What they did there, we think, is completely illegal.”

It’s the same thing that Trump was crazy a few days ago. But at the time, he threatened the media in his personal title – because we are now living in a world where the president is authorized to regularly pursue the media he does not like.

Although he was president, Trump still took the time to continue his personal grievances against the media. CBS is close to reimbursing him On his absurd trial in which he affirms that the network has changed a segment featuring vice-president Kamala Harris.


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In other words, CBS will pay Trump – the person – millions and millions of dollars so that Trump – the president – will tell the Federal Communications Commission to approve a merger between the parent company of CBS, Paramount and Skydance Media. It’s the same as ABC News did Even before Trump takes up his duties.

Last week, Trump had his personal lawyer, Alejandro Brito – who also managed the costume ABC –send letters For CNN and the New York Times, threatening to continue to report on a preliminary intelligence report which indicated that the strikes of the Drone of Trump had only resumed the nuclear program of Iran only a few months.

In his Letter to timeBrito said that the reports “have undermined the credibility and integrity of President Trump in the eyes of the public and the professional community”.

Apparently, reporting anything in contradiction with Trump’s claims is now considered to be the defamation of Trump, allowing him to continue. But it is also considered a crime, so Trump, as president, can pursue the doj. And just to complete things, Trump already had his administration destroy The non -partisan voice of America to be “radical”.

The DoJ is supposed to be independent of the president, not a vehicle to use Trump for reprisal proceedings. The president should not be able to continue his personal civil grievances against the same media he threatens to prosecates. But this happens because the standards have not been held and the checks and counterweights collapsed.

Trump’s attacks on the media are an assault on the first amendment and other basic democratic principles. In other words, it’s as usual for Trump.

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