‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

It has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime assault on free speech and a free press on the back of the assassination.Since Kirk’s death, the president and his top team have:

forced a private media company to suspend late-night TV star Jimmy Kimmel for inaccurate comments he made about Kirk’s suspected shooter;

threatened other TV networks with losing their licences should they say things Trump doesn’t like;

vowed to prosecute “hate speech” that is fully protected under the first amendment;

declared antifa a terrorist organisation in an indiscriminate attack on political ideology;