Anonymous ID: 7a5380 Feb. 20, 2025, 11:08 p.m. No.22624469   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/02/20/trump-launches-large-scale-offensive-against-media-bias-igniting-hyperbolic-freakout/

 

Trump Launches Large-Scale Offensive Against Media Bias, Igniting Hyperbolic Freakout

 

The establishment media’s grip on public opinion is under threat after the Trump administration launched a large-scale investigation of the industry.

 

The administration’s initiative comes as Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024, Gallup polling found in October.

 

“I absolutely HATE the Fake News Media,” President Donald Trump said on the 2024 campaign trail. “So bad for our Country!”

 

To remedy the bias, Trump and his allies launched at least seven offensives:

 

FCC probing PBS, NPR to uncover if they “violated government rules by recognizing financial sponsors on the air.

FCC investigating Comcast/NBCUniversal’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

FCC probing CBS as to whether or not it violated rules when it edited former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) demanding NPR and PBS testify at a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing on “systemically biased content.”

Defense Department cutting NPR, NBC News, Politico, and CNN from their workspaces at the Pentagon.

Executive branch canceling subscriptions to establishment media outlets, such as Politico.

White House banning the Associated Press from events at the Oval Office and Air Force One over the outlet’s refusal to drop speech codes.

 

The swift actions caused many media elites who covered Trump in a negative light for almost ten years to squirm and accuse the president of attacking the First Amendment

 

“The decision by the White House to block an AP reporter from an open press conference with President Trump and Prime Minister Modi is a deeply troubling escalation of the administration’s continued efforts to punish The Associated Press for its editorial decisions,” the AP whined last week.

 

Axios’s Sara Fischer claimed Trump is conducting “bullying and harassment campaigns,” “punishing media companies more than any leader since America’s founding.”

 

CNN’s Brian Stelter, who falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop story was Russian disinformation, accused Trump of “embracing the position of Word Police.”

 

Jim Friedlich, CEO and executive director of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, a nonprofit that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer, demanded the establishment media make a “commitment to collective action” against Trump.

 

Establishment media organizations have been working against Trump for years. One of the best examples is during the 2020 campaign. After the “laptop from hell” story broke in 2020, 51 intelligence officials signed a letter that insinuated Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation. Politico peddled the letter under the title “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”

 

The 51 signatories seemingly knew the Politico story was false at the time because the FBI had the laptop that Hunter abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop.

 

Former President Joe Biden cited the story during a 2020 presidential debate with Trump to discredit the laptop’s contents. The story was allegedly planted by former Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Biden to use during the event.

Anonymous ID: 7a5380 Feb. 21, 2025, 12:53 a.m. No.22624820   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4824 >>4826 >>4841

the race card is played..

 

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/19/diddy-defense-argues-he-was-signaled-out-because-he-is-black/

 

Diddy Defense Argues He was ‘Singled Out’ Because He Is Black

 

Defense attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are reportedly arguing that federal prosecutors “singled out” the disgraced music mogul because he is black, and claim authorities have demonstrated “bad faith” and “racial animus” in handling the case.

 

Combs’ attorneys made these assertions in a new court filing seeking to dismiss the music mogul’s prostitution charge, according to a report by ABC News.

 

In their court filing, defense attorneys claimed the charges against Combs are racially motivated, arguing that “no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution” under the Mann Act.

 

“Mr. Combs has been singled out because he is a powerful black man, and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished,” defense attorneys Alexandra Shapiro and Marc Agnifilo wrote.

 

“Count Three should be dismissed because this is a clear case of selective prosecution,” the attorneys added.

 

The defense attorneys went on to cite former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D), who had “engaged in similar conduct but were never charged under the Act.”

 

The filing was likely referring to Spitzer having resigned as governor in 2008, amid a prostitution scandal that destroyed his reputation.

 

The music mogul’s defense team also reportedly argued that the “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” singer had used a popular and well-known escort service to bring people into his sexual activities, which the attorneys suggested is common practice among people of Combs’ status.

 

“Many couples, including wealthy high-profile couples, involve third parties in their sexual relationships, sometimes for implicit or explicit remuneration,” the filing stated.

 

“No federal prosecutor, in this district or any other, has targeted the company, its CEO, or its escorts. Nor has any prosecutor previously targeted any customer who purchased escort services from Cowboys 4 Angels,” the attorneys added.

 

As Breitbart News reported, Combs has been in jail since September 16 following a federal indictment accusing him of more than a decade of abusing, threatening, and coercing women and others, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among other crimes.

 

The music mogul has been denied bail three times after a New York judge ruled that Combs must remain behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center while he awaits his upcoming sex trafficking trial, set for May 5.

 

Apart from the federal indictment, the Buzbee Law Firm and the AVA Law Group announced in October that they would be filing at least 120 separate lawsuits on behalf of alleged victims accusing Combs, his associates, and other entities of additional crimes.

 

Weeks later, batches of lawsuits were filed against Combs — and in the subsequent months, additional suits continued to roll out.