Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned us it was coming.

In a Cassandra-worthy clip that’s gone viral, Buttigieg told a questioner during last year’s presidential campaign that free speech would be under threat in the U.S. because Trump “wants to revoke the licenses of television networks that broadcast coverage that he disagrees with.”

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“I can’t think of a more direct attack on the freedom of speech than a government official, or a wannabe government official, saying, ‘I want to punish a television network because of their journalism.'”