Former President Donald Trump's running mate has Democratic jaws dropping after he suggested there was one thing his boss would never do.
Sen. J.D. Vance told rally attendees in Aston, Pennsylvania, on Sunday that the Republican presidential nominee always had championed Americans' right to freedom of speech — and always would.
"You know something Donald Trump will never do?" Vance said. "Donald Trump will never go out there and say that his fellow citizens should be censored or silenced for disagreeing with them."
Replied political commentator Justin Baragona, "Trump is literally demanding that CBS and ABC be taken off the air."
Trump and his allies have filed a complaint against CBS, sued ABC News and accused the Washington Post of illegally spreading propaganda supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.
Studies show reporters fear they'll be thrown in prison if Trump is reelected and have faced violent threats at his rallies from supporters who tell journalists, "I hope you're dismembered."
As early as 2022, insiders were revealing Trump had been privately strategizing how to jail "significant numbers of reporters."
This may be why Mother Jones editor-in-chief David Corn expressed hesitancy to take Vance at his word.
"What a liar," Corn wrote on X. "Trump just calls his critics the enemy of the people and, thus, places a target on their backs. Not to mention his calls for executing or putting on trial his detractors."
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Added On Democracy podcast host Fred Wellman, "Has this dips--- even met Trump?"
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Vance: You know something Donald Trump will never do? Donald Trump will never go out there and say that his fellow citizens should be censored or silenced for disagreeing with them. pic.twitter.com/UB1DM7o4on
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