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Can Trump Put Journalists In Jail?

Leeja Miller | June 17, 2026



Go to https://ground.news/Leeja to stay fully informed on US Politics and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 40% off for unlimited access on the Vantage plan. | Last week in Villarreal v. Alaniz, the Supreme Court declined to uphold a journalist’s free speech rights after she was arrested for asking questions of local officials. Yesterday, Trump threatened to put a journalist in jail who had published information about a US airman in Iran. At the Pentagon, a few far right nut jobs are all that’s left of the Pentagon press corps. The Trump regime will continue criminalizing journalists because they know how essential good journalism is to the functioning of a democracy.

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This post currently has 25 comments.

  1. @HeartlessKairi42

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    We need more big voices talking about qualified immunity. John Oliver's segment and The Rebuttal Podcast's episode were great but not enough. Scream it from the rooftops that it needs to be reformed YEARS ago.

  2. @bonesherington751

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    would love to see that video diving deep into qualified immunity. it is by far the most useful tool of the state in protecting their corrupt agents and more people should know about it and despise it.

  3. @danielvasquez5817

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    Can you go back in time and talk about the muller report I still can’t believe that trump had Russia interfere in the elections of 2016 and we just never bring it up, he stole the original elections!

  4. @robertk1850

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    My dad got very offended when I accused him of getting his news from Fox News. He thinks he's getting independent authentic news from his local Christian radio station. I really don't know how to convince him that that local radio station isn't really local, and it's part of the same propaganda arm of the republican party that he thinks Fox News is guilty of being.

  5. @ihavenothingforyou

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    It doesn't matter if it is illegal. He will still do it. Even if a journalist is likely to get released, the point isn't really to keep you there(unless they can), it is to scare journalist with the threat/action.

  6. @je2409

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    Unrelated but I really wonder what Hasan Piker and Leeja Miller think of one another. They're the two political commentators I watch the most on YouTube and I wonder how well they'd get along.

  7. @lindagarner295

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    Fast forward to Friday, Trump tacoed, of course, and declared victory, though Iran got everything they wanted, and on top of that, is going to be charging a $2 million toll for each ship through the state, and, yes, Trump is trying to make a deal to cash in on those tolls too. 🫤

  8. @quinton1630

    June 17, 2026 at 1:59 am

    I want this whole era to end. His presidency is the most destructive, loudest, fascist thing in our lives. The Biden presidency flew by and I only mildly paid attention to America. Now, every day I see that gaping orange maw on my newsfeed. I’m not even American. The American president sucks.

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