Sep 21, 2026 · 15 min · 11 segments
Trump is using his power to silence journalists for a very specific reason. Pre-order Jennifer’s new book Not Today, Fascists today: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast Follow Us: I've Had It Podcast…
Jennifer WelchHost
[laughs] "The White House is not instituting an assault on the free press, something which I cherish.
It is instituting an assault on the fake news, something that has grown like a cancer in our beloved United States of America." He has been droning on about fake news, fake news, fake news forever because real news hurts his feelings, and like a child, he has to say, "Oh, that's fake." And millions of Americans go along with this.
And how do we know that? Because Fox had to pay just shy of a billion dollars in a lawsuit to settle for lying about, uh, voting machines pertaining to the 2020, um, presidential campaign.
Why? Why do they like being lied to so much? And it's because critical thinking and the truth hurts.
This is a group of people from a very young age that have been told, "You have to have blind obedience.
Don't ask these things." This portion of the electorate is primed to fall prey to an authoritarian government.
[laughs] "The White House is not instituting an assault on the free press, something which I cherish.
It is instituting an assault on the fake news, something that has grown like a cancer in our beloved United States of America." He has been droning on about fake news, fake news, fake news forever because real news hurts his feelings, and like a child, he has to say, "Oh, that's fake." And millions of Americans go along with this.
And how do we know that? Because Fox had to pay just shy of a billion dollars in a lawsuit to settle for lying about, uh, voting machines pertaining to the 2020, um, presidential campaign.
Why? Why do they like being lied to so much? And it's because critical thinking and the truth hurts.
This is a group of people from a very young age that have been told, "You have to have blind obedience.
Don't ask these things." This portion of the electorate is primed to fall prey to an authoritarian government.
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