Post by @MicroWave@lemmy.world

2026-11-08 01:10 UTC

White House and DOJ considering arresting journalists over leaks and Stephen Miller is all aboard the plan: report 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.

Replies (7)

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2026-11-08 02:00

Lol… The day they arrest the first journo trump will be impeached and convicted. All those fucking sources are Republicans. And Dems only need like 5 Republican Senators to convict in the Senate. They’ll get rid of trump to save themselves from trump in a heartbeat Maybe he’s doing it just to get JD on the big boy chair? That way he can try to start pivoting the party back to the middle before 2028.

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@mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-08 01:22

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

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@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-08 04:57

With all the spying apparatus, back doors, and data centers they have running, they still can’t ID sources? As someone who paranoically runs Graphene OS and avoids Facebook and Google, this is actually kind of disappointing.

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@sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-08 05:15

How about they arrest child molesters who worked with Epstein?

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@BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2026-11-08 05:32

This sounds GREAT! -Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer!

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@Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-08 06:08

Lol why are we calling journalist reporting “leaks.”

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@Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2026-11-08 06:34

arresting people who do their job because the evil shit youre doing, isnt something you want the public to know about. make that make sense in a democracy

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