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Trump and Kushner Make Bid to Take Over and Control CNN
Remember this clip from the 1992 movie Sneakers starring Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley.
The line by Kingsley's character in this scene, where he said, "There's a war out there, old friend. A world war, and it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear. How we work. What we think. It's all about the information," has always stayed with me through the years.
In 1983, 90 percent of American Media was controlled by 50 companies.
In 2012, 90 percent of American Media was controlled by six companies. Those were GE, Disney, Fox, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS.
The situation has only become worse as fewer multinational companies now control what news and entertainment we see, read, and hear.
Disney has merged with Fox.
Warner has merged with Discovery.
Amazon acquired MGM.
Netflix and Paramount are both offering competing bids to acquire all or parts of Warner/Discovery.
CNN is part of Warner/Discovery, and Donald Trump would very much like his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is one of the principals in the Paramount bid to prevail.
Why?
Money and self-enrichment for him and his family? Of course.
An Orwellian desire to tighten more control of the content and release of information to the masses for him and his party's benefit? Undoubtedly.
Corruption to maintain the MAGA message and solidify control. Absolutely.
Putting his two cents in on the current bidding war for Warner, Trump said at the White House yesterday:
"I think CNN should be sold because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent...I just think that the people have run CNN into the ground, by the way. Nobody watches. Very few people watch. I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer...I don't think the people that are running that company right now...a very dishonest group of people..."
At that same event, he berated a CNN reporter for questioning the status of the release of the second video showing the murder of two boat survivors of a ship the United States had bombed, after claiming it was carrying drugs from Venezuela, ranting that the journalist was working for the Democrats.
These remarks are so rich considering that they are coming from a convicted felon, impeached Chief Executive, failed businessman whose numerous bankruptcies included a casino, and leading advocate for censorship and rewriting American History.
Commenting on the continuing monopolization of American Media and Trump's unethical, illegal, and unconstitutional role in trying to shape it to suit his ends, Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari issued the below social media release on December 9, 2025.
In her remarks, Representative Ansari said we need less monopolizing and more actual capitalistic competition in the media industry, conveying:
You may have seen that Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers. This may seem like some faraway mega deal between these billion-dollar corporations, but it actually touches all of us. If they're (Netflix) to be successful with this. That means that they are going to have control...over close to half of the streaming market. That means that your subscription prices could go up. That means that it'll be harder to make independent films, and local movie theaters could shut down. It also means that they will have vast amounts of control over the media that we consume. It also means that Donald Trump, who is notorious for liking a quid pro quo, will have an enormous amount of control over the type of media that everyday people consume. We saw that this summer, during the monopolistic merger that was occurring when Disney and its partners were in the middle of one, and they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because of pressure from the Trump Administration. We know that if Donald Trump was serious about lowering costs for people, he would actually want to encourage competition, but that's the opposite of what his administration has tried to do. That's not fair, and in fact, it's illegal, and it's happening in Industries across this country...If we want to really drive down prices for work in people in this country, we need more and more competition, and we need the federal government to step in when monopolies start to form. We know that Donald Trump cannot be counted on to stop his ultra-rich friends and allies from making more money. In fact, we know that Jared Kushner, right now, his son-in-law and somebody who is employed by the federal government, is actually part of a counter-suit where Paramount is trying to now purchase Warner Brothers, and he is putting billions of his own dollars behind this. We're also seeing his allies from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, also putting billions of dollars behind this deal. And it's Jared Kushner who is responsible for negotiating deals with these governments as part of his role with the federal government. It does not get more corrupt than this. This is a national security crisis. It's a corruption crisis, and we have to do something about it."
Representative Ansari is right.
Donald Trump wants to become Big Brother.
He and his disgrace, Pete Hegseth, at the Defense Department have already taken steps to isolate the press from access to Executive Branch Departments, press pools, and events.
He or his allies can not be allowed to either dismantle or infiltrate a major mainstream cable news network and absorb it into its far-right media echo chamber.
Otherwise, we could have a further perpetuation of the misinformation avalanche on the American People, enhancing the deterioration of the American Ideal and the Democratic Republic.
And most of the people w
Sunday, December 7, 2025
"Everybody Needs to Wake Up: The Occupant of the Oval Office Is Ignorant to the Constitution and Has No Regard for the Rule of Law"
In a stinging rebuke of the belligerent words and the inept and undoubtedly illegal actions of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, fresh off appearing on NBC and CNN Sunday morning political talk shows, held a news conference in Washington, D.C..
During the conference, Senator Kelly ably outlined all the ways Mr. Trump had continued his habit of destroying everything he touches, from his failed business ventures, including bankrupting a casino, to using intimidation to steamroll his ill-advised policies like tariffs and health care price hikes that are destroying the American People and the Nation's economy.
He also compared his record of service to Trump's record of failures and spewing false conspiracy theories.
He also explained how Trump should have simply said "of course" in reaction to the video Senator Kelly and five other members of Congress released a couple of weeks ago, where they urged members of the active military not to obey an illegal order, instead of threatening to arrest and hang all of the people who appeared on the social media post.
In his comments before taking questions, Senator Kelly said:
"...The President has gone too far. Everybody needs to wake up. The occupant of the Oval Office Is Ignorant to the Constitution and Has No Regard for the Rule of Law. Trying to silence me in proposing to court-martial me and threatening to kill me for fighting back when our Democracy demands that we must fight back. President Trump has crossed the line, and this time, it's not going to work. I will not be intimidated by this President. I am not going to be silenced by this President or the people around them. I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy...They aren't going to keep me from speaking out. And they're not going to keep me from doing my job. Enough of the bullying. Enough of the intimidation. Enough of the threats. Enough of your nonsense. Doesn't help anyone in the country afford their groceries or pay their medical bills. And it erodes the rights of every American..."
During the question and answer session, the Senator chastised the unqualified and incompetent Hegseth for his role in ordering the deaths of survivors of a boat the United States bombed for dubious reasons, equating him to "A twelve-year-old on stage that plays army."
He also challenged Trump's reasoning to use the military to effect regime change with Maduro in Venezuela, while he just pardoned the former President of Honduras and released him from an American prison for the very drug trafficking that Maduro is accused of doing.
Again, this is how it is done.
In Trump's Dark Vision for America, a 19 Year Old College Freshman is Deported without Due Process
Thought it was supposed to be about deporting the illegal immigrant violent criminals.
How is the person pictured below a threat to national security?
Any Lucia Belloza, a 19-year-old college freshman at Babson College who has been in the United States since she was seven, wanted to surprise her family with a visit to their home in Texas this Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, the surprise became horrific when Lucia Belloza was detained by border officials before boarding her flight to Texas, arrested, chained and shackled, dragged out of the airport, and, despite a judge's order, deported to Honduras, the country of her birth.
Her crime.
Based on reporting from CNN, Lucia Belloza has had, according to Homeland Security, a deportation order since she was eight years old.
This is a college freshman who has no criminal record and had no idea what was going on when she was detained.
According to CNN, Homeland Security said Lucia Belloza "received due process" before being deported.
Why is that hard to believe when a judge told the government not to deport her, and Homeland Security again disobeyed a jurist's order?
With this logic and low bar, 34-time convicted Donald Trump and his White Nationalist minions like Tom 'I want $50,000 for access' Hohman should have been exiled years ago.
With this logic, the former Honduran 'Drug Trafficking' President should never have received a pardon from Mr. Trump.
Lucia Belloza's attorney said they will fight to bring her back into the United States.
This is the latest example of Donald Trump's and his White Nationalist Project 2025 Apostates' reign of terror on innocent people by denying them due process, treating them like animals, and shrouding this country in their dark white's only vision for the country.
Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trump Gestapo division was pulling green card applicants, including spouses of American military personnel, out of court to start deportation proceedings even though they did nothing wrong and were following the law.
What horrific transgression of the law and decency will Trump, Hohman, Judenrat Stephen Miller, and contempt of court citation is coming for Kristi Noem, do in the coming days?
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