Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
Jul 28, 2025 · 12 min · 10 segments
"The idea should be very clear: Trump is going after the media to suppress coverage of the cover-up." The media is becoming complicit in the greatest cover-up in the history of American politics. The…
Rick WilsonHost
And now that we're in a stage where the monster's completely out of control and Brendan Carr, his, uh, Federal Communications Commission chairman, is completely out of control, we're about to enter an era where Donald Trump's administration attempts to put federal monitors, e.g. sensors, into media outlets.
I don't think you understand what that compromises that you guys made in the last year mean, whether it's Jeff Bezos backing The Washington Post off of a Harris endorsement or pulling the plug on stories and, and gutting the newsroom, whether it's, frankly, The New York Times continuing to both sides an awful lot of these stories.
I, I, I've, I've found for the last couple years, it just lacks the incision to, to call it what it is.
A lot of good enterprise reporting there, I'm not criticizing that, but there is a certain editorial, like, blahness sometimes.
But they're talking actively now about having people from the government controlling what media outlets say and do and cover.
There's a reason that they're fearful of this right now, and there's a reason they wanna do this right now.
It is the single largest coverup story in the history of American politics and government.
Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, tens of thousands of hours of video, tens of thousands of photographs.
All the media companies that have made all these compromises and pulled all these punches and said, "Oh, we're not gonna offend the president because he might hurt our merger.
He's gonna do all those things because if you are doing your jobs, you will be covering, 24/7, the greatest political scandal in American history.
The president of the United States has ordered the Department of Justice to pardon the woman who ran the largest child trafficking pedophile ring in recent memory, or perhaps any memory.
And now that we're in a stage where the monster's completely out of control and Brendan Carr, his, uh, Federal Communications Commission chairman, is completely out of control, we're about to enter an era where Donald Trump's administration attempts to put federal monitors, e.g. sensors, into media outlets.
I don't think you understand what that compromises that you guys made in the last year mean, whether it's Jeff Bezos backing The Washington Post off of a Harris endorsement or pulling the plug on stories and, and gutting the newsroom, whether it's, frankly, The New York Times continuing to both sides an awful lot of these stories.
I, I, I've, I've found for the last couple years, it just lacks the incision to, to call it what it is.
A lot of good enterprise reporting there, I'm not criticizing that, but there is a certain editorial, like, blahness sometimes.
But they're talking actively now about having people from the government controlling what media outlets say and do and cover.
There's a reason that they're fearful of this right now, and there's a reason they wanna do this right now.
It is the single largest coverup story in the history of American politics and government.
Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, tens of thousands of hours of video, tens of thousands of photographs.
All the media companies that have made all these compromises and pulled all these punches and said, "Oh, we're not gonna offend the president because he might hurt our merger.
He's gonna do all those things because if you are doing your jobs, you will be covering, 24/7, the greatest political scandal in American history.
The president of the United States has ordered the Department of Justice to pardon the woman who ran the largest child trafficking pedophile ring in recent memory, or perhaps any memory.
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