Why Trump’s comments about ABC’s broadcast license matter

The problem isn’t just that Donald Trump threatened a network’s broadcast license. The problem is that he keeps threatening networks’ broadcast licenses.
Sept. 12, 2024, 9:28 AM EDT
By Steve Benen [^11]: Kim Jong Un letters with Trump: A window into the leaders’ ‘special friendship’ / CNN Politics. By Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb, CNN.Updated 6:48 PM EDT, Wed September 9, 2020

It is no surprise that Trump holds admires strong-arm dictators, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un[^11], and Minister Victor Orbán of Hungary. Putin is former KGB; he knows how to control people. Flattering Trump will get you anything you want.

One of the principles of America is freedom of speech and a free press. Trump wants to control what the media says about him.

America has no need for state-run media. Faux News is the closest news media as state-run media. The Trump Party1 controls Faux News.

  1. The Republican Party ceased to exist in 2016 when it chose the most unqualified candidate, Trump, as its presidential candidate during their July July 2016 national convention convention. ↩