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— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 30, 2026

Jim Acosta Claims Trump Wants “More Reporters In Jail”

“I think they do want to put reporters, more reporters in jail, and they want to make it very difficult for news organizations to tell the truth in this country. I experienced that firsthand. But there’s something sadistic about it - there's a sadism in this and, that Donald Trump seems, and his people seem to really get off on grinding down the free press in this country.”
— Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta on MS NOW's The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi, July 23.

WashPost’s Phillip Kennicott Compares Trump Administration To “Authoritarian-Minded Regimes”

“Well, I think it’s about controlling how we tell history, whether that’s at the material level of a building or when it comes to the narratives that are intertwined and unfolded in a place like the Smithsonian. Authoritarian-minded regimes have always understood that there is both an material and an intellectual aspect of history. And if you can erase history in the material world, in the built world, you assert great power to actually erase narratives in places like the Smithsonian. And if you have that power, then, of course, you can control the present and the future.”
— Washington Post Culture Critic Phillip Kennicott on PBS News Hour, July 28.

Jon Stewart Claims Trump Is Media’s “Opponent In That Fight” For The First Amendment

“I don’t need to see the cops and robbers getting along at a banquet honoring our penal code. You can celebrate the First Amendment without asking your opponent in that fight what he thinks. You already know what he thinks.”
— Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, July 27.

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