Friday on CNN’s “The Source,” actress Jane Fonda said President Donald Trump is making the United States into a banana republic by taking away constitutional rights.
Fonda said, “The attacks on the arts writ large. Writers, painters, museums, National endowment of the Arts, state arts councils. These are all being defunded. People who Trump doesn’t agree with are being fired. Networks who report on the war, for example, in ways that Trump doesn’t like, are told that they may lose their license. I mean, this is what happens in banana republics and in totalitarian countries.
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She added, “You can’t have art unless unless the artists can express themselves. You may not agree with it, but, you know it’s art. You have to let it be. And. What is happening now in this country has never happened here before. Our bedrock rights, the First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom
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