Trump administration launches probe into free speech crackdown in Britain

The Trump administration is doubling down on its commitment to stand up for freedom of speech in Europe with an extraordinary move. According to GB News, Trump “sent a team of U.S. officials to the U.K. to investigate concerns over freedom of speech restrictions, particularly regarding pro-life activists who have been arrested for silent protests outside abortion clinics.”

Vice President JD Vance made international waves in February when he confronted European leaders at the Munich Security Conference on their free speech record, singling out the U.K.’s persecution of pro-life protestors. Vance noted that veteran Adam Smith-Connor had been convicted and sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs simply for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, and cited Scotland’s draconian buffer zone that could apply to people praying inside their own homes. ---More...