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Earlier this week, President Trump filed a $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC alleging that they deceptively edited his speech from January 6, 2021 to omit his call for the a peaceful protest; something the BBC seemed to cop to in an apology they issued in November. The fresh suit caused CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter to clutch his pearls during a Tuesday edition of CNN News Central, where he suggested the suit was about chilling speech. He was wrong. The suits we’ve seen in recent years were to hold the media accountable, and save them from themselves. “Number one, a year ago it was unheard of for a sitting American president to file a lawsuit against a news outlet. This never happened before until President Trump returned to office for his second term,” Stelter warned. “But now, this year, he has sued The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and as of this morning, the BBC. So, he is charting a new course, trying to take his war against the news media to court.” Of course, Stelter conveniently ignored how the Obama Justice Department had targeted individual journalists and tried to lock them up: James Rosen (Fox News at the time) and James Risen (The New York Times at the time). Stelter seemed to channel Puck News’s smears of the defamation case CNN lost earlier this year (which, in part, caused Puck to catch a defamation suit of their own) and claimed the case didn’t have standing in Florida, where it was filed: And it's going to be very difficult for him to do so, but he's trying anyway. Even if these lawsuits are just PR stunts, he is getting the headlines he wants. He is charging defamation against the BBC and arguing that Florida is the appropriate venue for a lawsuit. I spoke with numerous legal experts, media law professors overnight who are very skeptical of Trump's chances, in part because it's going to be hard to prove that he was actually damaged in Florida. But like I said, the headlines might be the point.     Despite of Stelter’s insistence that the case didn’t have standing in Florida, it arguably did for the same reasons the case against CNN was filed there. The BBC documentary was available online and viewable in Florida. Then there’s also the fact that Florida was Trump’s official residence (much like how Navy veteran Zachary Young’s business, Nemex was incorporated in Florida). Stelter was right that a president had never taken the media to court so many times. But we’ve also not seen so many private citizens do the same until recent years. Brian, maybe it's because the media had never been more radical and reckless with their reporting. Since Trump first became president, the media had grown more vicious and zealous in their perceived moral superiority (a dangerous combo); seeing themselves as paladins wielding their pens like swords against what they’ve openly claimed was an “existential threat” to the country and existence. It's the reason they felt comfortable in targeting and smearing children like Nick Sandmann and 9-year-old Chiefs fan Holden Armenta. Also this year, just days before it went to trial, MSNBC had to settle their own defamation suit for erroneously dubbing a doctor the “uterus collector” because his had seen illegal immigrant women in ICE’s custody. The ends justified the means to them: don’t you dare attend the March for Life or put face paint on or work for ICE, or we’ll crush you. That’s the real chilling of speech. What Stelter would like to frame as “chilling critical speech” was actually about holding the media accountable and trying to get them to amend their behavior. When CNN was found liable for malicious defamation against Young in January, the network was also made to pay Young punitive damages (which was paid out via an undisclosed settlement). The point of punitive damages was to make it painful for the defendant as a punishment to teach them a lesson. It also served the purpose as a warning to others who thought of doing the same. Stelter was all for calling out what he saw as misinformation, like calling his efforts to put Fox News out of business “harm reduction”; but when it was about holding the leftist media to account for their misinformation, he condemned it. Looks like CNN didn’t learn their lesson. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN News Central December 16, 2025 8:50:06 a.m. Eastern KATE BOLDUAN: So, President Trump is now taking on the BBC, launching a defamation lawsuit against the British news giant for $10 billion over a documentary that he says was selectively edited. The President says the BBC cut together specific parts of the speech that he delivered on January 6, saying they deliberately omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protests. The BBC has acknowledged and apologized to President Trump, even admitting the error in judgment over the way the clips were edited, though they say that the President has no legal basis to sue them. But where does this go now? CNN's chief media analyst Brian Stelter is following this one very closely for us. Brian, what do you see here? BRIAN STELTER: Number one, a year ago it was unheard of for a sitting American president to file a lawsuit against a news outlet. This never happened before until President Trump returned to office for his second term. But now, this year, he has sued The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and as of this morning, the BBC. So, he is charting a new course, trying to take his war against the news media to court. And it's going to be very difficult for him to do so, but he's trying anyway. Even if these lawsuits are just PR stunts, he is getting the headlines he wants. He is charging defamation against the BBC and arguing that Florida is the appropriate venue for a lawsuit. I spoke with numerous legal experts, media law professors overnight who are very skeptical of Trump's chances, in part because it's going to be hard to prove that he was actually damaged in Florida. But like I said, the headlines might be the point. Here's what Professor Dylan McLemore told me overnight. He said, "the decision to file in Florida goes back to the question at the heart of all the president's suits against media companies, is he filing them to win in court or to create headlines and chill critical speech from the press?" That is a question in some ways answers itself. So far the BBC not saying much about this suit, Kate. But the BBC has vowed to fight if Trump sues, as he has now done. BOLDUAN: Yes. Brian, thank you so much for being all over this. Much more to come here. I really appreciate it.

National "Public" Radio loves the radical socialist Mamdanis. This is an easy exhibit in their dramatic ideological bias. On Tuesday's Morning Edition, co-host Leila Fadel offered a seven-minute softball interview with Mahmood Mamdani, including his new book Slow Poison, which argues Idi Amin wasn't such a bad dictator -- because he was against the evil Western colonizers and allied with the Soviets. From the Amazon blurbs:  “Mamdani tells the story of his family’s exile―and his own eventual return―in hopes of complicating our view of Amin, and of Ugandan politics. Mamdani is less interested in the jubilation of independence than in the turmoil that followed. Africa’s transformation proved far bloodier than many had hoped, yet Mamdani still insists that the continent’s independence leaders have something to teach the world.”―Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker “The book is informed by a hardheaded recognition that nation-building is often an ugly business, and that Amin’s crimes should be evaluated in that context.”―Geoff Shullenberger, Compact Magazine “For half a century, Mahmood Mamdani has been one of the world’s most influential and incisive analysts of African and Global South politics. Slow Poison reveals why....upending a litany of myths surrounding Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and modern Uganda. Mamdani makes for a compelling witness. Brilliant!”―Robin D. G. Kelley Fadel referred to Zohran Mamdani as a "political superstar"....twice. He's just becoming a mayor, but NPR sounds like they're putting him on an Obama track. She began the segment like this:  LEILA FADEL: These days, Mahmood Mamdani is known as Zohran Mamdani's dad, the political superstar that felt like he came out of nowhere to win New York's mayoral race. But before his son's political rise, his father had long been a storied academic focused on colonialism and anti-colonialism in Africa. And that academic work stems from his own experience as a Ugandan citizen of Indian origin. Later on, she focuses on the father and son:  FADEL: I can't help but make the connection to your son's recent victorious campaign in New York because so much of it and the attacks on your son were about belonging. And I just wonder if you think about the influence of your own academic research and the conversations you had at home that have turned your son into a political superstar in this moment. MAHMOOD MAMDANI: I mean, look, these conversations were conversations that were there when he was 7, 8, 9 in Cape Town. They were conversations about who is a South African. FADEL: Yeah. MAMDANI: Who belongs and who doesn't? It is the precursor to what Zohran was saying in New York. New York belongs to all that live in it. It wasn't just a question limited to us as migrants from South Asia, but it was a broadly African question. And it was a broadly global question. Fadel asked Mahmood about advice he's offered to Zohran, and he brushed it off, like that's something he doesn't do (until asked). But he was proud of the son's staunch opposition to Israel:  MAHMOOD MANDANI: There are some issues on which he has refused to compromise, and the biggest issue has been his critique of Israel and his pointing to genocide as genocide, refusing to change his vocabulary, refusing to denounce anything as the price of his freedom of speech. So he's done that and he has done it very successfully, and he has shocked his opponents. I mean, he signals a change. He signals the possibility of change. Canary Mission points out Daddy Mamdani is all about dismantling the "Jewish state" of Israel, and not only compared Israel to the Nazis, but compared the American Indians to Jews in the Holocaust. “Zionists in Israel have long drawn inspiration from how Americans cleansed the land of Indians.” To NPR, this makes him a "storied academic."  

Federal authorities arrested five individuals in connection with an alleged planned New Year’s Eve terror plot. A criminal complaint revealed that two of the suspects claim to identify as transgender.The Department of Justice held a press conference about the alleged thwarted terror attack on Monday.'This case is another reminder about the dangers that radicalized Antifa-like groups pose to public safety and the rule of law.'Bill Essayli, the first assistant for the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, explained that, on Friday, his office and the FBI arrested several members of a “far-left, anti-government domestic terror cell who self-identify as the Turtle Island Liberation Front.”The suspects were also members of a more radical offshoot of the group called the Order of the Black Lotus, according to Essayli. He highlighted the arrests of the four individuals from the Los Angeles area, stating that they have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. He noted that his office plans to file additional charges. The arrested individuals were accused of attempting to construct and detonate improvised explosive devices in the Mojave Desert in preparation for alleged planned attacks on New Year’s Eve at five locations across Los Angeles, California.Essayli claimed that the arrested individuals were planning to bomb multiple U.S. companies. They also allegedly planned follow-up attacks against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. RELATED: FBI stops radical pro-Palestinian New Year’s Eve terror plot: Report Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesAuthorities uncovered posters associated with the TILF that included threatening language, including “Death to America” and “Death to ICE.” “This case is another reminder about the dangers that radicalized Antifa-like groups pose to public safety and the rule of law,” Essayli said. One of the four, 32-year-old Zachary Page, reportedly identifies as transgender and requested that authorities send him to a women’s jail, the New York Post reported.Agents with the FBI’s New Orleans field office arrested a fifth individual tied to the TILF who was allegedly planning a separate attack in Louisiana. An unsealed criminal complaint revealed that the suspect, 29-year-old Micah James Legnon, is a Marine veteran who claims to identify as transgender, the Post reported.RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesLegnon, a man who uses “she/her” pronouns, went by “Kateri TheWitch” and “DarkWitch She/Her” in online chat groups and allegedly posted threats against ICE on social media. “S**t time to recreate Waco tx with these f**kers. F**k ice,” Legnon allegedly wrote, referring to the 1993 Waco massacre that resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and over 70 civilians. Legnon is currently in custody and facing charges of making threats over interstate commerce. Journalist Andy Ngo, who was the first to identify Legnon, stated that the suspect’s “social media is filled with posts calling for the m—rder of people he labels as ‘fascists.’” An attorney for Page declined a request for comment from the Intercept. Court documents did not list an attorney for Legnon. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While many were celebrating the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, liberal demonstrators tried to usurp the moment to protest the administration's immigration enforcement policies.Rather than dump tea into the harbor, the protesters from Boston Indivisible tossed ice into the harbor, symbolizing their opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 'This is a symbolic measure saying we want ICE to leave our communities alone.' The group claimed that about 1,000 people joined their protest on Tuesday evening. They tried to equate the colonists' struggle against government oppression with the plight of illegal aliens who ignore immigration law."This is not left or right. This is not progressive or conservative. It’s being American," said Martha Laposata of the group.Group members said that they used environmentally safe ice that was approved by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection."Anybody who understands the nature of our country should be doing something. This is not the time to sit home and watch TV," said Mary Sweeney.Video from the event showed protesters chanting, "No Kings! No Tariffs! No ICE!" as they tossed the ice into the harbor.RELATED: VIDEO: Leotarded liberals protest ICE facility with '80s-themed aerobics class "This is a symbolic measure saying we want ICE to leave our communities alone," said Alex Rikleen, a candidate for the U.S. Senate who lists his pronouns in his profile.The protesters said they hoped the demonstration would encourage others to speak out against the mass deportation policies implemented by President Donald Trump.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A 101-year-old World War II veteran delivered a passionate speech about his love for America and President Donald Trump’s leadership during an event at Mar-a-Lago this week.On Tuesday, America’s Future hosted the Second Annual Champions for America Celebration Gala to honor and recognize individuals “whose lives reflect courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment to faith, freedom, and service.”'This was a reminder of who we are.'Navy veteran and Bronze Star of Valor recipient William “Bill” Dillon, who served from 1942 to 1947, shared powerful remarks with the audience.“There’s nobody in the godd**n world who cares more for this nation than this guy that you’re looking at,” Dillon stated. “And I think Trump is not only the president of the United States; he is the president of the world.”Dillon complimented Trump for his “fantastic job” negotiating on behalf of the country. “I’m 101, going on 102. Godd**mit, put a uniform on me — I’ll go tomorrow!” Dillon declared.RELATED: The families behind our veterans deserve more than once-a-year thanks Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesMatt Van Swol, a former nuclear scientist at the Department of Energy, stated that he had the honor of meeting Dillon at the event.“Bill said that he has lived under 22 American presidents and that President Trump is his favorite. ... Truly a special person,” Van Swol said.“A World War II veteran, Bronze Star of Valor recipient, submariner, and aerospace pioneer, Bill delivered an energetic, passionate speech that reminded everyone what real courage looks like. From serving aboard the USS Sailfish to helping build America’s early space program, his life reflects sacrifice, resolve, and love of country,” America’s Future said, referring to Dillon. “This was a reminder of who we are.”RELATED: Stories Behind the Stars: On a mission to honor every American who died in WWII Bill Dillon. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Associated Television InternationalAmerica’s Future highlighted remarks from actor Isaiah Washington, human biologist Gary Brecka, author Angela Stanton-King, and General Charlie Flynn.The organization referred to the event as an “unforgettable evening.”“Tonight, America’s Future gathered to honor courage, faith, and conviction. Bringing together voices and leaders who refuse to stay silent when the stakes are high. From powerful remarks to heartfelt moments of recognition, this was a night that reminded us what America stands for and why the fight for her future matters," the organization wrote.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

As is often the case, there is a kernel of a shade of truth in the president’s hyperbolic talk on social media.

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