Trump FAILS, Paying BIG Time For Attacking Retired Cop For Posting Meme

追加: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]In September of 2025, a 61-year-old retired police  officer named Larry Bushard logged onto Facebook and posted a meme. It's just a meme. The  meme had a picture of Donald Trump with a quote underneath it. And the quote was Donald  Trump's own words. Words that he spoke in 2024 after a school shooting at Iowa's Perry High  School. Quote, "We have to get over it."

[00:00:29]Bushart added his own caption above it  saying, "This seems relevant today."

[00:00:35]And so, normally, I'd expect to get a  few likes and some outraged MAGATypes losing what's left of their mind if I  posted a meme like that. But for Larry, for posting a Donald Trump quote underneath a  Donald Trump picture, Larry spent 37 days in jail.

[00:00:55]And on Wednesday of this this week, the  state of Tennessee paid him $835,000.

[00:01:04]This all happened in the post Charlie Kirk climate  in America where Trump quotes and Trump's people will lock you up for simply quoting Donald  Trump. Dorito Donald's free speech paradise.

[00:01:22]And after Charlie Kirk's death, Larry  Bushard, who lives in Tennessee, posted a series of Facebook memes that  criticized Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA.

[00:01:32]And the one that got him arrested was  the Trump we have to get over it quote timed to where it essentially applied to the Kurt  shooting. And somehow in classic leap in logic, the Perry County Sheriff Nick Williams decided  that that meme was a threat to a local school, the Perry County High School in Tennessee,  which by the way is a totally different school than the one in Iowa that Donald Trump  was originally telling you to get over.

[00:02:02]And that sheriff later admitted that he knew that  Bushart's meme referred to the Iowa school, not the school in Perry. Yet that sheriff arrested him  anyway and set the bail at $2 million for a meme.

[00:02:17]Bushart sat in jail for 37 days because  he couldn't pay a $2 million bond for posting one of Donald Trump's quotes.  He missed his wedding anniversary.

[00:02:28]He missed the birth of his granddaughter. He lost  his postretirement job. And then predictably, the charge was eventually dropped in October.  And I can't stop thinking about this fact here.

[00:02:41]Larry Bushart is a retired cop. The Perry County  Sheriff threw a fellow cop in jail for 37 days because he dared post Donald Trump's own words  next to Donald Trump's own face. They jailed an officer for quoting the president that they  pretend to worship. the cognitive dissonance required to to do that should generate enough  energy to power Knoxville for an entire month. So, of course, Bushart sued. The case was an obvious  First Amendment slam dunk. And Perry County, watching one of the most embarrassing defendant  fact patterns in modern court history, settled for $835,000 of taxpayer money. And that taxpayer  money is now going to a guy because the sheriff in their county decided that Donald Trump's own  words were too dangerous to quote on Facebook.

[00:03:37]Larry did say in a statement that he's  pleased that his First Amendment rights have been vindicated, that the people's  freedom to participate in civil discourse is crucial to a healthy democracy. The the man  sounds like a Saturday Evening Post cover story, but wasn't that Charlie Kirk's whole shtick that  he was protected by the First Amendment when he disingenuously debated college kids and then  he went out to say all that racist stuff.

[00:04:07]But that sort of thinking cost the taxpayers in  Tennessee 835 grand just to learn that the First Amendment exists. And Bushart, he's not alone.  Monica Meeks, a lifelong Tennessee public servant.

[00:04:20]She was fired by the state of Tennessee for  another Facebook post criticizing Charlie Kirk.

[00:04:26]A professor was fired for citing Kirk's own words  on gun violence. Not opinions, not commentary, just quoting Charlie Kirk back to  Charlie Kirk's fans. Got fired.

[00:04:43]Meanwhile, the State Department under Marco Rubio  has instructed officials to monitor social media posts that celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. And  the government wants to identify the authors.

[00:04:56]You have a US government surveillance program  against private American free speech about a private American. There is a federal scale  speech crackdown happening in this country against people for sharing their opinions about  a guy who built his entire brand on saying quote, "Every group has a right to be offensive." There's  a reason the First Amendment is first. It's not because our founders thought that hate speech was  great. It's because they had just spent an entire war watching a king lock up people for saying mean  things about the king. and they said never again.

[00:05:37]And yet here we are, 37 days in a  Tennessee jail cell because Larry Bushart quoted Donald Trump who wants to be king  at a sheriff who loves Donald Trump.

[00:05:50]$835,000 later, we've got a reminder. Free speech  isn't free if you've got to pay bail to enjoy it.

[00:05:59]And Donald Trump and his goons think that that  sort of speech is dangerous, just like the algorithm here thinks that some of the things  we say are dangerous. That's why I need you to sound off in the comments. Do me a favor and let  the algorithm know that we are not going to shut