Trump Threatens ABC’s Broadcast License After Rocky Debate Performance
Former President Donald Trump gave a floundering, erratic performance in last night’s debate. However, he’s blaming an unlikely culprit for his uninspiring showing: ABC News.
“ABC took a big hit last night,” Trump said during an interview on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning. “I mean, to be honest, they’re a news organization. They have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”
According to The Hill, ABC and other large networks don’t have or need Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing. Trump’s call to shut down ABC is simply another in a long line of preposterous, dubiously legal, claims that his enemies should face government crackdowns—which, just recently, have ranged from calls to throw in jail everyone from flag-burners to “Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials,” who allegedly caused his 2020 defeat.Â
“It was a three-on-one, and that’s okay, I’ve had worse odds in my life,” Trump said. “I’ve had it before, but never so obvious. A lot of people are very angry about it. You have corrupt news organizations, you have a lot of bad people.” Earlier in the interview, Trump called his first, much more successful debate with President Biden a “much more honorably run debate.”
While ABC journalists David Muir and Linsey Davis faced backlash from right-wing commentators who argued they tanked Trump’s performance, in reality, Trump’s greatest enemy on Tuesday night was himself.Â
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