💬 Opinion 8h ago · Jacob Sullum

Trump's Responses to Kimmel and Comey Highlight His Contempt for Freedom of Speech

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Trump's Responses to Kimmel and Comey Highlight His Contempt for Freedom of Speech
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Last week, President Donald Trump said late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel "should be immediately fired" for making a "really shocking" joke about him. The next day, the Justice Department charged another prominent Trump critic, former FBI Director James Comey, with committing two federal felonies by posting a photograph of seashells arranged in the sand to form the message "86 47"—a ubiquitous statement of opposition to the current president.
Those back-to-back expressions of presidential wrath un

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