Will Cain Thanks Glenn Greenwald For ‘Correcting Me’ on First Amendment After Guest Flames MAGA’s Free Speech Hypocrisy

Fox News host Will Cain thanked journalist Glenn Greenwald for “correcting” him on the First Amendment, Wednesday after Greenwald tore into conservatives for attacking free speech.

Discussing President Donald Trump’s crackdown on free speech on college campuses, including the arrest and detainment of Green Card holder and recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil for protesting Israel, Cain said, “I’m not sure where I stand here today, Glenn, but I know you look at this and you think many on the right have all of a sudden abandoned their defense of free speech.”

“Oh, there’s no question that they have,” replied Greenwald:

I mean, this is what happens when you are actually a principled free speech advocate instead of one who only objects to censorship when it’s your political allies who are being targeted, which is that a lot of people say they believe in free speech except when it comes to the ideas they most hate, which they want silenced.

I just want to make one crucial point, which was you said people on the far-left like Rashida Tlaib believe that legal residents in the United States have the right to free speech. That is an indisputable proposition that the Supreme Court has for 200 years affirmed, and just imagine if that weren’t the case. It would mean that if say, like, Jordan Peterson, who is not an American citizen but is always in the United States, were to go and denounce the Biden White House, the Biden White House could arrest him and deport him and nobody could object on constitutional grounds because he is a foreigner.

Of course people legally in the United States have the right to free speech, and we don’t want to create any kind of a framework, especially on college campuses as the American right has been saying, where because of the argument that minority groups are endangered by certain views, Black people or trans people or whatever, we have to censor those views in order to create a safe environment. That’s exactly what so many American conservatives that have great loyalty to Israel are now doing.

Cain responded, “I appreciate you saying that and correcting me on the long-standing policy on the United States’ First Amendment. I also would say, in correction of myself, it’s not just the far-left and Rashida Tlaib. It is, as you said, principled individuals, including those on the right that would bring up the First Amendment.”

The Trump administration’s decision to crack down on anti-Israel protests has received criticism from those across the political spectrum, including several former Obama White House staffers and conservative author Ann Coulter.

“There’s almost no one I don’t want to deport, but, unless they’ve committed a crime, isn’t this a violation of the first amendment?” asked Coulter this week after the Trump administration detained Khalil.

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