Fresh off his thorough victory over CBS News, President Trump is taking aim at ABC and NBC.

“Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren’t paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last night. “They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!”

While Trump’s many threats to revoke broadcaster licenses have never led to any actual license revocations, the CBS developments show how he can use the government to influence operations at news organizations. CBS owner Paramount recently inked a $16 million settlement with Trump and then agreed to install a “bias monitor” in order to gain Federal Communications Commission approval of an $8 billion merger with Skydance. Now Trump is turning his attention to ABC and NBC…

  • lutehero@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Trump and fake progressives who aggressively suppress voter turnout are the reason we have Trump today.

    If you want Democrats to support progressive causes head down to your local DNC headquarters and get to work. Otherwise you’re just helping Trump consolidate power by tearing down the opposition with false equivalence, a gross misunderstanding of how politics works in America, and a heaping pile of misinformation.