David French rushed in once again to paint Donald Trump in the worst light possible.
This time as single greatest threat to the First Amendment since Woodrow Wilson.
Yeah, I laighed too.
Sure, The New York Times is his new stomping ground but c'mon man, this is just dumb, even for you.
It’s become his go-to move whenever the president so much as looks sideways at the legacy media.
Yet another attempt at bullying from the worst free speech president of my lifetime. Perhaps since Wilson. https://t.co/hdX7Orazwg
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 11, 2026
French has built a whole brand around positioning himself as the thoughtful, principle-driven conservative who just can’t stomach Trump’s supposed authoritarian impulses. Yet the same guy who spent years wringing his hands over every Trump tweet or investigation suddenly develops selective amnesia when it comes to the actual record of press intimidation under previous administrations.
Remember when the Obama Justice Department secretly seized phone records from dozens of Associated Press reporters? Or when they targeted Fox News journalist James Rosen and his parents’ phone records in a leak investigation? Crickets from a lot of the Never-Trump crowd back then.
Fast forward to the Biden years and we had the administration openly pressuring social media companies to censor stories and viewpoints they didn’t like, all while the corporate press mostly shrugged or defended it as 'content moderation.' But let Trump’s team pursue legitimate legal avenues against a media outlet that has been openly hostile for years, and suddenly it’s the end of the republic. The hypocrisy is almost impressive in its consistency.
French and his cohorts treat any pushback against their preferred institutions as existential tyranny while giving a pass to the very real power plays that happened on their watch.It’s not that conservatives can’t criticize specific actions. It’s that the outrage always seems to flow in one direction. The same folks who lectured us about norms and institutions spent the better part of a decade cheering on lawfare, censorship campaigns, and weaponized bureaucracy aimed at anyone who challenged the narrative. French’s latest pearl-clutching just reinforces what a lot of us have known for a while: for some, 'free speech' only counts when the right people are doing the speaking.
The rest of us are supposed to sit down and take it.
No more.
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