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The White House and Department of Justice have reportedly been discussing potentially throwing journalists in jail to reveal the identities of leakers and fresh White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is behind the plan.

In an Atlantic report about the exit of Susie Wiles from her chief of staff role at the White House, it was revealed that a plan to jail journalists is in consideration in the administration. Wiles reportedly pushed back on such a plan while Miller gave it his endorsement.

According to the report, which cites multiple people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has been pressing the DOJ to pursue criminal cases against people who leak information to the media on “national security grounds.” Various “tactics” have been discussed, including arresting journalists to push them into revealing their sources.

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[–] mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Can we skip the speed run and go straight to the bunker suicide? I'm tired man

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If he needs the ballroom for the bunker under it to do that. Let him have it.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let's be fiscally responsible here: Just tell him it's done and put him in a small room with no windows. Much cheaper.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What they should have done was just put him in a fake oval office instead of letting him be president

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe set up an ironic fake "Faux News" to keep him occupied. I hear there's some thespians previously attached to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts that might be looking for work.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Turn his arch into a dungeon like the Tower of London, and stick him in there.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make oubliettes great again, you say? You have my attention.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Put him in the hidden supermax then cement it shut. Kill two birds with one stone

[–] mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

We can bury the whole thing, nice and neat. Fantastic idea.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Old man time has his hands around this bitch's throat already, he will be gone before it's completed anyway. He's already gone mentally, he was bad before, but now he's just a stark raving cunt.

[–] thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

he loves that thing though. we gotta tear it down after.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And make him pay for the initial demolition, the tear down, and the rebuild. And then fine him a few billion on top of it.

He won't need the money, he'll be in prison. So will anyone who would be inheriting it. Sorry Trump grandkids. Better get a paper route and start saving for college.

no. no his whole family should be dispossessed. he should be killed before demolition starts, or in the demolition.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I firmly believe that his ego would never allow him to kill himself. He'd flee and even hide Saddam-style, before ever ending himself. Unfortunately.

He'd flee, but not hide in a spider hole Saddam-style. He will eventually be caught but more in the style of Luka Magnotta...where he tries to disappear but his ego makes him constantly search for himself online. He'll he'd probably even post to his shit-platform and they'd snag his IP address off of it

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Sorry, gonna have to wait until January 2029, when they refuse to come out of the White House for their plane flight to Gitmo.

[–] thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Tou-fucking-ché

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The (clown) show must go on! Sorry, no, this landfill fire needs to burn out. Oh yeah, did I mention it's that landfill the air force dumped their nuclear waste in and now can't find? Yeah, it's not great.