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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

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

A tiny golden elephant figurine with its head fallen off, revealing a golden microphone within it.

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:

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