'Like his idol Putin': 'Total thug' Donald trumpets his mission to torch the First Amendment [video]

What a colossal joke:

Trump on the media: "I'm gonna open up the libel laws so that … when they write hit pieces, we can sue them, and they can lose money."

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 26, 2016

Trump: "We're going to open up those libel laws so when the NYT writes a hit piece we can sue them and win lots of money"

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/703296114666110977

So, will the media finally take away that free platform they’ve been giving Trump for months?

The media could easily combat this by not covering him 24 hours a day. https://t.co/d5VqTIC7CF

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) February 26, 2016

And yet the cable news nets are giving him — and none of his competitors — wall-to-wall coverage… https://t.co/FZoqDAWzmb

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 26, 2016

@mckaycoppins maybe they should just stop covering him altogether. Make everyone happy and he'd have to finally pay for tv time.

— Amash is Bae (@LBitter) February 26, 2016

Fat. Chance.

Being anti-political-correctness, but also pro-broader-defamation-suits, is freakishly incoherent.

— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) February 26, 2016

A concise description of Trumpism. https://t.co/2Aip4uhV7p

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) February 26, 2016

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Yep.

https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/703297849933570049

Your freedom of speech, if you can keep it. #Cato2016 https://t.co/ksVi4rSBrx

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 26, 2016

@mckaycoppins Oh cool, now he's down with squashing freedom of the press. What won't that wacky Trump say next?

— Rusty Weiss ?? (@rustyweiss74) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/703296322242273287

Are the media OK with this? Are Americans?

https://twitter.com/4danlopez/status/703296347026415616

"So this is how Liberty dies, with thunderous applause?" https://t.co/bhrrqYXdgi

— Passive Ingenuity (@ShaneWright22) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/Not4Chau/status/703296927132196864

Update:

Here’s video:

Editor’s note: The title has been amended to reflect the added video.