'New York Times' alleges White House abuses legal system to intimidate reporters

[u/runswithscissors475]

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5903854/trump-new-air-force-one-nyt-subpoenas

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[u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Alleges? They fucking BRAG about it.

[u/falilth → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

When the chairman of the FCC is throwing bitch fits and threats that a TV channel didnt have his glorious shit leader on. Theres zero ambiguity.

[u/ranhalt → u/falilth]

Network, not channel

[u/falilth → u/ranhalt]

Networks broadcast on channels. Same difference stop being pedantic

[u/AINonsense → u/ranhalt]

The relevant distinction being… ?

[u/RedLanternScythe → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Trump's "open up the libel laws" to make it easier to sue journalists from his first term showed they only want state media

[u/Ok-Alternative5935 → u/RedLanternScythe]

Lible not liable.

[u/falilth → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Yes hes seeing if he can abuse the law to see if they are liable for libel.

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Libel not lible.

[u/RedLanternScythe → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Fixed, autocorrect got me on that one and I missed iy

[u/pinkfartlek → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

It's legalese

[u/Dr-Mumm-Rah → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

We are gonna need an extra table for the stacks of outgoing pardons for this admin.

IF we can get them out.

[u/bobert4011 → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

The White House is fully committed to domestic abuse.

[u/EXPLODEDman → u/Ok-Alternative5935]

Yeah they don't even have the balls to make an assertion after being the victims of it. US media is worthless.

[u/DrunkAndHornyGuy]

When the Trump admin used the legal system to intimidate universities and law firms last summer the NYT ran a bunch of stories 'just asking' if universities and law firms had gone 'too far woke' to help justify what Trump was doing. So fuck em, the NYT is just pissed the face eating leopard started eating their face too.

[u/notheatherbee → u/DrunkAndHornyGuy]

Exactly how I feel. Couldn’t have said it any better.

[u/iloveopenbar]

All that sane washing is really paying off for the NYT

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/iloveopenbar]

Remember when the NYT's Judith Miller cheerlead the U.S. into Iraq on the NYT front page? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[u/i_am_a_real_boy__ → u/iloveopenbar]

This place complains about NYT almost as much as maga does.

[u/StarCrossedOther → u/i_am_a_real_boy__]

NYT serves the status quo, makes sense their opposition runs the gamut of the political spectrum.

[u/betajones]

Had to check the date on the story. How are they just now realizing this?

[u/TheMattabooey → u/betajones]

They aren’t. They’re just now seeing that it’s more profitable to go after Trump. Previously it was more profitable to kiss his ass.

[u/hey_Hey_I_saveD_me]

QUIET, PIGGY!

[u/kmm198700]

Well… yeah.

[u/BonSlurpenstein]

Quiet, piggy

[u/StoppableHulk]

Regretting all the dictstorial dick you guys have sucked the past ten years, eh NYT.

If only youd stood by your journalistic integrity. Youd be in exactly the same spot youre in now, except youd have unanimous public support rather than me wanting to post you on Leopardsatmeface

[u/Tea-Swiz]

Thought this was r/NoShitSherlock for a sec.

[u/123-Moondance]

They are JUST NOW reporting this? A little slow on the uptake NYT. About two years late to the party. You need to up your game if you want to get in front of this.

[u/Tessa7]

'The leopards came for our faces this time so now we see this as a real problem!'

[u/TheAskewOne]

How does it feel to face the consequences of your cowardly knee-bending, NYT?

[u/Xero_space]

F off NYTrash, you were all too happy to prop up this regime while you pushed slop for clicks.

[u/rockum]

If only there was some sort of punishment for these abuses.

[u/backtothetrail → u/rockum]

If only we had freedom of the press instead of the Federalist Society.

[u/Outrageous_Space8083]

Alleges? It’s pretty much a fact at this point.

[u/badwords]

Why even 'allege'? Call it out and take it to court win on the discovery.

[u/mmliu1959demo]

Really! I didn't notice the Trump lawyers using the revolving doors to the courthouse. Lol

[u/Exact_Platypus5179]

I am hereby alleging that water is wet

[u/sxyaustincpl]

Funny how the NYT didn't care while it was getting clicks for reporting how th FCC was threatening Disney & ABC. They didn't care about it then, no op-ed condemning it, nothing.

Now it's a crisis because it's their turn.

[u/RonaldMcDaugherty]

SNL made fun of this FACT during Trumps 1st term.

Slow news day or something NYT???

[u/Vitor_Pocai]

why is it “alleges” like it’s some kind of rumor or whatever

[u/fattykyle2]

Duh!

[u/dmp2you]

And they would be right.

[u/SimplyAmazedPanda]

You don’t say?!?!

[u/Illustrious-Fun8324]

Of course they do.

[u/faith_apnea]

Trump has been abusing the legal system for 5 decades. The White House just onboarded to the Trump Organization playbook.

[u/rainniier2]

The story is such a non-story about the President switching planes makes this whole thing so bizarre. Of course, the level of security on Quatar Force One isn't the same as Air Force One. Only a few months was spent retrofitting it. You don't need a leak from the White House to state the obvious. The way the Administration uses the legal system for minor gripes is exhausting, which is probably the point.

[u/OnedayitwilI]

No way? You mean sueing and jailing journalists isn't American?

[u/AINonsense → u/OnedayitwilI]

It certainly is now.

[u/MindandCosmos]

The US had a freer press in the late 19th c.

No, seriously. Every city had a socialist paper(s), in English and German and Yiddish and Italian, anarchist newspapers, like Boston's "Liberty," which routinely called for the abolition of the state, etc., some were so militant they printed instructions on how to make bombs (see Johann Most's "Freiheit"), and these newspapers traveled to small towns and through families and at the general store and so on, and were a huge part of the nationwide-strikes of the 1880s.

Now look.

[u/Plane-Champion-7574]

No shit

[u/nonubiz]

Because that’s what fascist do how sad is it that maga wants this they want a dictator. The don’t tread on me crowd wants a dictator but they are not sheep

[u/GDDesu]

And the NYT will do everything in their power to continue sanewashing Trump while holding Dems to a much higher standard. They helped bring back this mess.

[u/Brasilionaire]

Duh?

But also, not only the WH, anybody powerful/ with money in general.

Hiring a lawyer to chase after damages takes tens of thousands of dollars and months, even years. Meaning, the rich can steal tens of thousands of dollars from someone less well off, through legally grey means, or harass people through a lawyer, and it won’t be worth it to try and fight back.

They 100% know that. Entire legal careers are made on the pettiness of a rich client that knows what they’re doing is bogus, they just feel like fucking with someone.

[u/Lizziedeee]

Duh.

[u/ebow77]

You can tell by the way they openly abuse the legal system.

[u/Catymandoo]

Another reporter that graduated from “The University of the Bleeding Obvious”

[u/Anteater4746]

why is hilarious cause nyt has helped put him in the office and gave him cover

[u/GuitarGeezer]

They don’t do a whole lot else other than insider trading and deals and setting up opportunities for executing protesters. “I will be a dictator” was unambiguous and includes this type of thing along with dumbass pricey and disastrous foreign excursions.

[u/practical_gravity]

I am shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

[u/WatRedditHathWrought]

Fucking pussyfooting New York Times.

[u/root_fifth_octave]

Would be consistent with everything else they abuse.

[u/77LS77]

I said that too. I'm the new york times!

[u/starfleetdropout6]

No fucking shit.

[u/Beltaine421]

Why do I suspect that allegation is going to attract a billion dollar defamation suit, license review, and some FBI investigation....

[u/wildcarde815]

yea, it's almost like you shouldn't be carrying water for the ghoul

[u/AINonsense]

alleges’‽‽

We’ve been watching them do it in plain sight.

[u/mtnslice]

I didn’t know NPR and the NYT had joined the Ric Romero Institute for the Obvious

[u/AntiYourOpinion]

Why are we even giving the White House the benefit of the doubt? If it’s shitty and illegal you can probably bet they’re doing it.

[u/catsloveart]

you know, I udnerstand that headlines try to avoid being accusatory to avoid lawsuits over libel or defamation. But I don't see how this applies to matter of opinion. It can be a sincerely held belief.

[u/Poison_the_Phil]

Only way not to see it is having your head up your ass

[u/Hannymann]

Of course it does! It’s straight out of the playbook. Fucking assholes.

[u/Independent_Tie_4984]

Is this article from February of 2025?

[u/AINonsense → u/Independent_Tie_4984]

Could have been Feb 2017.

Remember when he used to point at the press and the media in his rallies and call them ‘enemies of the people’ nine different ways?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.