Trump threatens Time journalist with prison over photo

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Trump threatens Time journalist with prison over photo

21 June 2019

US President Donald Trump threatened a Time magazine photographer with prison for apparently taking a picture of a letter from Kim Jong-un.

Mr Trump rebuked the photographer in the Oval Office after he was warned by an aide not to take a photo, according to Time's transcript.

The interview continued, but grew heated after the special counsel's investigation of Mr Trump came up.

"You can go to prison instead," the president said.

The interview took place in the White House Oval Office on Monday, two days before Mr Trump travelled to Florida to formally launch his 2020 re-election campaign.

At several points during the interview, Mr Trump asked to speak off-the-record, including in the moments after showing the Time reporters a letter he said was from the leader of North Korea.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696131

[samnsara]

1. traitor trump will go to prison first!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. This would be an attack against the Free Press...

That letter is part of our National Security protocols. Anything coming from a hostile Foreign country bent on doing us harm, the American people have a right to know.

Trump hates the Free Press. All the more reason to step up in doing their jobs.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. 45 million Americans want him to go to prison now too...broken

[tanyev]

4. Maybe you shouldn't be waving super-duper secret documents in front of cameras, asshat.

[greymattermom]

5. So he showed them a letter

that they weren't supposed to see? Really?

[spanone]

6. Dictator don, ready to start jailing journalists...

Hey don...

[UTUSN]

7. I've hung back from calling him "mad man" but am getting there now.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment

Remember when free press rights was their thing?

[C_U_L8R]

9. This would be laughed out of court

But I really wish we could laugh this putz out of office

[joshcryer]

10. He's so weak.

[duforsure]

11. Sounds more like

Putin's Russia.

[yonder]

12. "List of things"

Pampered all his life, the lazy fool can't be bothered to remember any so-called accomplishments or to even fetch the "list of things" himself.

"Uh, I don't know. Look, I think I've done so much. Could you bring the list of things, please, give me four of them,"

[NellieStarbuck]

13. He's been bragging about this "beautiful letter"

-- from Kim. You'd think he'd be proud to have it photographed.

[yuiyoshida]

14. He really thinks he is a dictator

smdh.

[Honeycombe8]

15. Anyone surprised by his statement? Anyone? It's only a matter of time...if he wins re-election.

I guarantee you that we'll see reporters in prison, if he wins a new term. He'll view that as carte blanche to do anything his warped mind thinks of, and a Republican Senate to support him in it.

[librechik]

17. election? Like the one in 2016? Or the one in 2004? Or the one in 2000?

2018 was too big a blue wave for them to flip. 2020 won't be.


I would laugh if 20 years of crappy local election management and partisan gerrymandering hadn't already made me desolate and without hope for this broken country. I can almost live with it now, but I'm old and don't have to live here all that much longer.

See you in the gulag!

[calimary]

19. I know how you feel, my friend.

Wonder who’d be first? Jim Acosta? The Asset does nurse his grievances, after all, and Acosta has already had his credentials yanked, briefly. This would be the next logical step, ‘eh?

[librechik]

28. maybe later. It's too much fun making concentration camps and ten denying they are

concentration camps. Thanks for being my friend! Let's hope he's all talk.

[Turin_C3PO]

24. Why do you think turnout will be less than 2018?

I see no evidence that Dems won’t be motivated to turn out. In fact, I predict record turn out numbers from Democrats. It’s our jobs as activists to get out the vote in our areas.

If we do that, all the Russian interference in the world won’t matter. We do have power. Don’t let Trump and the GOP convince you otherwise.

[Honeycombe8]

26. We need an Obama for that kind of historical turnout.

A middle of the road "our candidate is fine, and certainly better than the alternative" won't be enough, I think.

Lest you think that's a dig against Biden, I'm not seeing any candidate that even approaches excitement by the masses. But it's early. Let's see what happens.

[librechik]

27. In 2020 (I hear) we will need 5 million more votes to beat Trump's electoral college schemes

I hope it happens ( the GIANT blue wave.) But I worry about the reliability of machine voting in many disyticts. And good old Confederate electoral fraud.

[True Blue American]

16. Is there a record of the picture.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Trump's interview with @TIME got heated when he made a comment about prison time for a journalist:

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

Trump's interview with @TIME got heated when he made a comment about prison time for a journalist:

Link to tweet

[LiberalFighter]

20. So he flashes the letter out in the open that he doesn't want others to take a photo?

A reasonable person 1) Would not say anything about the letter, 2) Would not have it on their person, 3) Would not pull it out flashing it.

[smirkymonkey]

29. Yeah, a REASONABLE person.

But Trump always has to brag and try to impress everyone, even though nobody in their right mind would be impressed by a "beautiful" letter written to him by Kim Jong-un.

I think he got so angry at the journalist because the letter was probably a very formal, impersonal letter mentioning something about how they had not been firing any missiles and were in compliance with the requests of the US government, or something like that, instead of a folksy, affectionate letter written to Don the "Stable Genius".

He was afraid for the world to see that he did not have a warm, personal relationship with Kim at all and that Kim was taking him for a fool (which he is) and manipulating him.

Kind of the way he talks about how Queen Elizabeth is his new best friend and hasn't had a better time with anyone else in years.

He seems to want to assume an intimacy with all these world leaders and to put himself on their level, but none of them take him seriously. In fact they all consider him to be a joke.

[Girard442]

21. Why didn't he tell the Secret Service to seize the camera?

OK, maybe they couldn’t legally do that but he would think they could.

[TeamPooka]

22. So now his go-to move is "knee-jerk dictator."

[keithbvadu2]

23. Trump liked Time enough to make a fake magazine cover of himself.

Trump liked Time enough to make a fake magazine cover of himself.

[world wide wally]

25. This man should not have the power to put anyone in jail