Following President Donald Trump’s exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, where he accused the network of hating the country, host Dana Bash addressed the remarks while appearing visibly bothered and frustrated.
“CNN over there doesn’t want to put [the numbers] out because they don’t like putting out good numbers … because I think they hate our country. It’s a shame, really,” Trump said.
Bash rebuked Trump for accusing the network of withholding positive information about his administration from the public out of hatred.
Trump was asked by that country’s leader why the media does not promote the number of immigrants his administration has deported.
“Well, they get out … but the fake news,” Trump said, gesturing toward reporters gathered in the room.
“CNN over there, doesn’t want to put them out because they don’t like putting out good numbers … because I think they hate our country. It’s a shame, really.”
Bash pushed back on Trump’s comments about her network.
“I just want to say for the record … CNN does not hate our country,” she said.
“That should go without saying. I’ve been here for 32 years. And I see a rhetorical device in him trying to say such a thing. That said, I want to focus on the news that we heard.”
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Trump also interrupted CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she attempted to ask a question on tariffs.
As Trump opened the floor to reporters, scanning the room for questions, Collins began to ask, “On tariffs, is there an update…”
However, Trump swiftly cut the CNN reporter off, refusing to let her finish.
“No, not you,” Trump immediately replied in response to Collins.
Conservatives have called for the de-funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for years. Now, with CEO Katherine Maher on the hot seat in front of Congress, that may become a reality.
Most Americans have enjoyed some of public broadcasting’s offerings, like Sesame Street and nature documentaries. With NPR, the long-running Prairie Home Companion variety show was also a hit, at least until the #MeToo movement’s broad claims of sexual harassment took him down just as he was retiring.
But both PBS and NPR have gone hard, hard left in the past decade, NPR most obviously. Even longtime liberal listeners found themselves turning the radio dial when every single story was used to pitch fringe-left ideas about how systemically racist, misogynist, and anti-environmental America allegedly was.
Despite the denials of partisanship, NPR’s own Uri Berliner blew the lid off the lies in late 2024 with an exposé of just how biased the network really was. Berliner was with the network for 25 years, and had his own progressive credentials as a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and being raised by, in his words, “a lesbian peace-activist mother.” Writing for The Free Press, Berliner tried to sound the alarm for his colleagues with a warning that their blindness to the radio network’s hyper-partisanship jeopardized not only their subscribing listeners but the support of the American public.
The most shocking part of Berliner’s essay were the cold hard facts. He discovered that of the 87 members of the broadcaster’s core editorial staff, not a single one of them was conservative. Each of the 87 was a registered Democrat.
While being grilled by Congress this week, Maher used her patented Mommy-Tone speaking voice so beloved by the Ted Talk set. Watch South Carolina Republican Rep. William Timmons question Maher about the hard-left position she and her staff take. He ends with an implied warning that NPR’s budget might have to be re-jiggered because the network is not “worth saving.”
Rep. Timmons: "You have 87 registered Democrats, not a single Republican in your editor board."
Throughout the hearing, Maher gave implausible answers on many topics, suggesting she may not have been entirely honest. She claimed not to have any idea about the 100-percent registered-Democrat status of her headquarters staff. She also claimed to have no memory of several of her own posts on Twitter (now X) calling for reparations money for black Americans, and accusations that the country was inherently racist and woman-hating.
Here’s freshman Republican Brandon Gill from Texas nailing her on her social media claim that Americans were “addicted to white supremacy.”
President Trump calls for NPR and PBS to be defunded.
This follows Wednesday’s hearing where NPR CEO Katherine Maher was humiliated when @RepBrandonGill used Maher’s own social posts against her to expose how ridiculously partisan she and NPR are.
Here’s what X users had to say. They remember some of her other greatest hits, such as questioning whether searching for the truth was really all it was cracked up to be.
NPR's CEO Katherine Maher: "Truth is a distraction from getting things done"
Bob’s view sounds like that from many former NPR listeners, liberal and conservative.
Like so many, I used to love NPR. That was until it turned into the radio version of the extremist left MSDNC with a sprinkle of comedy and trivia shows.
A recent report circulating in the media suggests that the Trump administration no longer considers Russia a major cybersecurity threat.
The claim, based on an alleged memo from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has drawn sharp criticism from officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who have called it “garbage.”
The Guardian’s entire story is based on an alleged memo that the Trump Administration never issued and the Guardian refuses to let us see or tell us the date of said memo. https://t.co/fpc2VxwHyI
The Guardian reported that a memo from CISA, which operates under DHS, outlined new cybersecurity priorities that focused on China and protecting local systems but did not mention Russia.
The report also cited an anonymous source claiming that analysts at the agency were verbally instructed not to follow or report on Russian cyber threats, despite Russia having previously been a primary focus.
The source further alleged that cybersecurity personnel cuts within the agency had weakened U.S. defenses, stating, “Russia and China are our biggest adversaries. With all the cuts being made to different agencies, a lot of cybersecurity personnel have been fired. Our systems are not going to be protected, and our adversaries know this.”
The report also included the claim, “People are saying Russia is winning. Putin is on the inside now.”
Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats.
Other officials have also dismissed the claims, emphasizing that the memo in question was not produced by the Trump administration.
The allegations come amid longstanding media narratives linking Trump to Russia, many of which have been debunked in recent years.
Critics argue that the latest report follows the same pattern, attempting to reignite controversy over Trump’s approach to Russia despite a lack of verifiable evidence.
The Guardian has acknowledged its left-leaning perspective in past reporting, and while it often covers stories overlooked by U.S. outlets, this latest claim has been met with skepticism.
Some have drawn comparisons to past incidents where media outlets ran with documents or reports later found to be unreliable.
As of now, there has been no official confirmation of the memo’s authenticity, and DHS officials have categorically rejected the notion that the Trump administration instructed agencies to ignore Russian cyber threats.
Vice President JD Vance kicked off the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by storm at the National Harbor, Maryland, where he doubled down on illegal immigration and free speech.
Vance had just jetted in from the European tour where he lambasted European governments for promoting illegal immigration and runaway censorship at the behest of Joe Biden.
Vance started by reiterating that the American people gave President Trump the mandate to save the country, adding that the president was keeping his team at a “pretty breakneck pace.”
“Trump knows that the American people have given us a chance to save the country, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. And thank God for that, because the past month has been a lot of fun,”
The Thursday morning interview host Mercedes Schlapp noted that the media was overwhelmed and could not keep up with Trump’s progress. Vance took a jab at CNN by claiming that the Trump admin had issued more executive orders than the network’s viewers.
When asked, Vance doubled down on illegal immigration which he termed as the greatest threat to Western civilization.
“The greatest threat in Europe, and I’d say the greatest threat in the US until about 30 days ago, is that leaders in the West have allowed millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries,” he said.
“We have to secure the southern border, and thanks to his [Trump’s] action, border crossings are down well over 90%, and we’re just getting started.”
Vance also put drug traffickers on alert saying their “free ride is over because President Trump is back in the Oval Office.” He also noted that the federal government needs to hire more border patrol agents to secure the country’s border.
“We got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Christy Noem, the resources they need to secure the border.”
On the economy, Vance said America must reignite its economic growth to create good jobs and high incomes for its people.
“We have to unlock the engine of the American growth. We have to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people and a lot of that goes back to drill baby drill.”
He also noted that the government must account for taxpayers’ money, of which he said Elon Musk’s DOGE was helping uncover massive waste.
“Like for example… why are we spending money on Progressive modern art projects, centered around toilets in Afghanistan?”
“Let’s turn off the spigot and spend the American people’s tax money on the American people’s priority.”
Vance also talked about making Trump’s tax cuts permanent, which include ending tax on tips.
On freedom of speech, Vance received a standing ovation after mentioning his Munich speech in which he lambasted European governments for terrorizing their citizens for expressing themselves. He said that stopping illegal immigration was not enough and governments must allow people to speak about it.
JD Vance just got a massive standing ovation for the speech he gave to European officials. pic.twitter.com/g7z5DN8NWI
“… you have to allow free speech to debate this stuff.”
“You’ve got to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say, ‘no more this BS, we want borders, we want sovereignty, we want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country.’”
“I’m not even blaming the Europeans, I’m actually saying, you followed the lead of Joe Biden into censorship and mass migration. Follow the lead of Donald J. Trump and that’s free speech, borders, and sovereignty, that’s the future for our shared civilization.”
The vice president warned that US-European relations will depend on shared values such as freedom of speech and strong borders.
Vance also addressed the Ukraine conflict by assuring the American people that President Trump was working to resolve it as quickly as possible.
“I think with President Trump, what makes him such a strong negotiator—and I’ve seen this in private—is that he doesn’t take anything off the table. Everything is on the table. And of course, that makes people in America upset because they say, ‘Why are you talking to Russia?’”
Addressing concerns that Trump was negotiating with Putin, Vance reiterated that the Ukraine War cannot end without speaking with all parties involved.
“How do you end the war if you don’t talk to Russia? You have to talk to everyone involved in the fighting.”
The Vice President also addressed abortion by advocating for policies that allow Americans to “choose life” and “start families,” adding that Americans need to “stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded.”
He also encouraged young people, especially men, to be themselves and avoid the negative culture that “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men 🔥🔥
“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends,… pic.twitter.com/JKWuX9cQhn
Vance’s speech kicked off the three-day event at which President Trump, Elon Musk, GOP lawmakers, government officials, and international leaders will appear. Government officials and legislators expected to speak at the CPAC include House Speaker Mike Johnson, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Foreign leaders expected to attend the CPAC include Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Argentina’s President Javier Milei. European conservative politicians such as Britain’s Nigel Farage, France’s Jordan Bardella, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will also attend the CPAC.
Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss jokingly requested Trump to take his revolution to Europe and allow Musk’s DOGE team to look into “the British deep state.”
The left is having a very hard time accommodating the reality of a conservative electoral sweep and a national tilt to the right. To put it in mental health diagnostic terms that leftists would understand, they appear to have an “adjustment disorder”; that is, they’re having great difficulty adjusting to a new political world.
It’s been decades since being a newsman or reporter was a working class job, and it shows. Today’s TV “personalities” are as removed from the concerns of the average American as it is possible to be. More than half the country voted for Donald Trump, and the majority is aligned with several of Trump’s policies on expelling illegal aliens and having the government recognize the reality that there are only two sexes.
You’d never know it to watch mainstream news coverage on NBC, CNN, NPR, or in the pages of the New York Times and the like. The writers and on-camera personalities are not only at odds with majority American opinion, they don’t even seem to be aware that they are. Take someone like CBS anchor Margaret Brennan, who has repeatedly disgraced herself with her hostile, mean-girl demeanor and scoffing at Donald Trump and JD Vance. Her latest move was to react to Vance’s address to a meeting of European leaders—Vance took them to task for surveilling and punishing the speech of their own citizens—by claiming that “free speech” allowed the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust.
Or, take CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who seems to be personally offended on behalf of the numerous federal staffers that Trump has fired as duplicative, incompetent, or obstructive to his agenda. Like most on the left, Keilar seems to be unclear on the fact that a boss has the right to hire and fire subordinates. She seems to want to suggest that Elon Musk, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Government Effiency (DOGE), is somehow out of control, or acting in a way he’s. . .not supposed to?
Her guest, Stephen Miller takes the nonsense right apart on the air. As if he were instructing a schoolchild taking her first civics lesson, Miller calmly explains, “The way that Article II (of the Constitution) works is that a president wins an election, and then he appoints staff . . .and those staff report to him.”
Undeterred, Keilar keeps going, asking, “Does Elon Musk know he’s not in charge of DOGE?” It’s the kind of disingenuous fakery the Democrats resort to constantly now as they refuse to engage on substance. Miller comes right back: “Again, the president runs the government, and the president appoints advisors. . .and then those staff in turn execute the president’s commands and directions to all the agencies of the federal government.”
Take a look at the video highlighted by Collin Rugg to watch Keilar try to tamp down her frustration as Miller placidly smiles.
JUST IN: Stephen Miller starts laughing at CNN's Brianna Keilar while explaining to her how the government works as if she's a child.
"I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis, a catastrophe for you and for CNN."
CNN commentator Ashley Allison accused the network and former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden of racial and gender discrimination while defending Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Allison made the outlandish claim while debating Scott Jennings, who supported President Trump’s decision to scrap the policy.
Allison said that as a “black woman in this country,” she does “not have the same opportunity” as the other panelists.
“I do not have the same opportunity as you. I know I don’t. And you know that too,” Allison said.
“I’m not talking about how you feel. I’m talking about how I feel, me, a black woman in this country,” she continued after Jennings interrupted her.
ALLISON: I'm a black woman in this country… I have a law degree, a masters and two bachelor's, probably more education that all of y'all added up. And I have always been the LEAST PAID person on payroll everywhere I've worked.pic.twitter.com/afWqOr92OJ
She continued to list her qualifications, which she said include a law degree, a master’s, and two bachelor’s degrees – which she claimed is probably more than all the panelists combined.
“And I have always been the least-paid person on payroll at every institution I have worked in, and it’s not because…,” she dropped the bombshell.
One of the panelists sought clarification on whether even a Democratic White House paid her less than other employees for being a black woman.
“Even in the White House?” Asked the panelist.
“Even in the White House,” Allison confirmed.
The panelist also suggested that it was the Left’s problem as she did not work for Republicans when the alleged racial discrimination occurred.
“Whose fault is that?” he asked. “I don’t think you worked for George W. or Trump.”
Allison worked for Obama as a senior policy advisor and the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, managing associate directors who worked with leaders in the African American community and other groups, such as LGBTQ+.
She also worked for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020, which, according to her statement, must also have underpaid her based on her race and gender.
Ironically, she also inadvertently accused CNN of racial discrimination by stating that she did not have the same opportunity as other panelists. Similarly, claiming that she has always been the least paid in every institution she has worked for, suggests that even CNN was underpaying her.
Either she was lying, or Democrats have actually racially discriminated against her, with the former being the most likely. Her credibility took a nosedive when she claimed that DEI did not exist when she worked at the White House between 2014 and 2017, while Obama had already introduced it in August 2011 under Executive Order 13583. It is also unfathomable that someone employed to fight discrimination would herself be subjected to it.
While Allison’s racial discrimination claims at CNN and the White House are hard to believe, the policy she defends perpetuates racial discrimination.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s race-based college admissions practices. The court stated that the practices violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.
According to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), “DEI policies are nothing more than state-sanctioned racial discrimination.”
Scott Jennings is a shining light in the dark hellhole known as CNN.
The Republican political strategist and writer is one of the few conservative voices permitted on the network, and regularly offers a sensible alternative to what is otherwise a left-wing propaganda tool. His recent appearance on Newsnight was no exception.
Despite the best efforts of his liberal colleagues, Jennings tore apart each and every argument thrown his way. His first victim was Maria Cardona, who went into a bizarre outburst on how the Department of Justice “does not work for the President,” despite, as Jennings pointed out, the DoJ being within the Executive Branch.
This is so good.
Scott Jennings provokes Maria Cardona into an unhinged outburst over who runs the Executive Branch.
"The Department of Justice does not work for the President!"
Ashley Allison stepped in as the discussion moved on to using the judicial system to target political opponents.
“By your logic, if you apply it to the last administration, which I don’t think is the case, if Joe Biden wanted to go after Donald Trump, the Attorney General should be able to do it,” Allison said.
“They did go after Donald Trump, because Joe Biden did want to do it,” laughed Jennings as Allison tried to amend her statement.
CNN's Ashley Allison walked right into this one with Scott Jennings!
"By your logic. If Joe Biden wanted to go after Donald Trump, the Attorney General should able to do it."
The conversation then moved onto illegal immigration, with one pundit arguing that voters had not realized to the full extent what the President’s mass deportations would truly entail.
“The assertion that all American voters did not know exactly what Donald Trump is going to do…is totally false,” Jennings replied. “There was mass amount of polling during the campaign. Hispanic Americans supported deportations by majority. You and I debated this many times. You claimed it wasn’t true. And then what did they do, they went and voted for Donald Trump.”
He added, “There is no buyer’s remorse. The people who followed our laws and came here legally are more than happy to see the laws enforced.”
Cardona responded with a suggestion of mass amnesty, arguing that the way to “get rid of all those illegals” was “to give them a pathway to citizenship.”
🚨@ScottJenningsKY forced to school hyperventilating CNN panel that Americans are not having “buyer’s remorse” over deportations:
“The assertion that all American voters did not know exactly what Donald Trump is going to do…is totally false."
The highlight of the night, however, came when Catherine Rampell accused Elon Musk of performing a “second Sieg Heil”. When Jennings told the Washington Post columnist to “lawyer up”, Rampell suffered a fullblown meltdown, demanding Jennings “do it on TV right now” while slamming the desk.
NEW: Journalist Catherine Rampell has a meltdown after Scott Jennings tells her to lawyer up after she suggested Elon Musk is aligning himself with Nazis.
CNN is now directly accusing Elon Musk of doing a Nazi salute at Trump’s rally.
The disconnect between real world events and the beliefs and statements of “respectable” mainstream media is wider than at any time in living memory. Our grandparents who grew up on the “big three” channels-ABC, CBS, NBC-would not recognize what passes for news reporting today. There was never a golden era when everything the newspapers and TV anchors said was the whole truth, but there was a stronger anchor to reality reflected in the news coverage that began in the mid-20th century and continued through at least the year 2000.
Not anymore. All the broadcast stations (with the partial exception of Fox News), and all the cable news networks appear to have no actual understanding of the real world. It’s impossible to say whether the beat reporters, correspondents, and anchors actually believe what they say, or whether they are consciously lying. But what they appear to believe, and what they’re trying to get you to believe, bears no relationship to observable events in the real world.
This is most apparent in coverage of the so-called riots that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. What nearly every news source has called a “violent insurrection” for years was not an insurrection at all. It’s certainly not the case that a total of 1,538 people committed acts of violence or threatened police – yet that is how many protestors have been put through the court system or sent to jail.
All along, the media, the White House, and Democratic politicians have lied to make the event seem darker and more sinister than it really was. They lied and said Donald Trump encouraged a “violent insurrection,” when in fact he addressed the public and told them to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” Even the compromised Associated Press had to admit it.
Politicians and the media accused rioters of killing police officers, yet no police officers were killed. They claimed that rioters had bashed capitol police officer Brian Sicknick over the head with a fire extinguisher, killing him. That never happened. Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the non-riot.
It’s been four years, and the media is still either lying, or is somehow so disconnected from the real world that an impartial observer would legitimately question if there’s a form of mental illness at play among the media elite. While it does appear that some rioters did physically assault Capitol officers, none of them were killed. The media does not seem to care at all about the person who was killed: veteran Ashli Babbitt. She doesn’t rate, you see, because she was MAGA, which for leftists is code for “disposable subhuman scum.”
Ashli Babbitt’s death didn’t even rate a mention from this pool of reporters asking questions of incoming President Donald Trump when he was asked about Jan 6 pardons Watch this exchange below – the reporter asked Donald Trump if he planned to pardon any of the rioters who attacked police officers. Trump turned it around and replied, “The only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashli Babbitt.” He went on to remind the press pool that there were never any charges of “insurrection” against anyone, because no insurrection occurred.
REPORTER: “Will you pardon anyone who attacked an officer on Jan. 6th, 2021?”
TRUMP: “The only one who was killed was a young lady. Her name was Ashli Babbitt.”
Those wrongly accused should have been freed 4 years ago. I hope they are going to be able to go home to their loved ones. This is long overdue. The media should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to push narratives.
What happened to the days when reporters had to verify their stories before printing or speaking? A quick Google search would have saved this woman from ridicule.
It’s rare today to see a major media outlet have anything critical to say of anything, anyone, or any practice in the media itself. While the news business has always been clubby, it did not used to march in absolute political lockstep. But it has done so most obviously since at least 2016 with the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
The New York Post has started off the year with a bang in a long overdue excoriation of the craven lying of basically all of the press regarding President Joe Biden’s obvious senility. It’s not surprising that it’s the Post taking the issue on, as that paper has every reason to be critical of its colleagues and competitors. The New York Post is America’s oldest newspaper, and it was the paper that broke the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Hunter, the president’s son, abandoned a laptop at a computer repair shop in Maryland. Predictably, the contents leaked, and what contents they were. There was evidence that Hunter and his father Joe were engaged in unsavory, unethical, and possibly illegal dealings with Ukrainian businesses like the energy company Burisma. Not only that, but the computer was full of prurient photos depicting Hunter Biden smoking hard drugs and consorting with what appeared to be prostitutes.
The All-Democrat-All-The-Time mainstream media either ignored the story, or accused the Post of making the whole thing up. Under its pre-Elon-Musk ownership, Twitter banned the New York Post’s account entirely, preventing it from posting anything on the platform. All this was a far cry from the heroic narrative about the hard-hitting independent press that has lingered on since the days of the Watergate scandal depicted in All the President’s Men.
Now the Post strikes back. In a blistering editorial, the editorial board accuses its media colleagues of exactly what they did: “President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along . . . Every last [Democrat who covered it up] deserves scorn, but so do the journalists who not only let these fantastical fibs go unchallenged, but even parroted the lies: Biden was showing no signs of mental decline, they insisted — and it was offensive, ignorant and borderline bigoted to even suggest otherwise.”
What’s so infuriating about the press trying to hide Biden’s senility was that everyone could see it. Despite what your Democrat aunt might claim, and despite what talking heads on television claimed, no adult American of ordinary intelligence could not see that Joe Biden has been in dementia for years.
The New York Post points out, “The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point.The public wasn’t buying it: Back in February, 86% of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time, and over the course of several years.”
It’s hard to recollect a time in living memory when the entire press apparatus lied about the most obvious deficiencies in the leader of the free world, and tried to tell sane Americans that it was they who were losing their minds for noticing the truth.
The public is beyond fed up. Here’s a sampling from X/Twitter under a Fox News post about the topic. Fox framed it as the media “being in denial,” and the public isn’t letting them get away with it.
They were more than “embarrassingly wrong”, they were complicit in perpetuating it. They continually bashed those who called it out & their sudden revelations are just words. When do the apologies come?🤷♀️
Wasn't failure. This was planned & coordinated and the press played their part to stay away from story and suppress it. Think about that FBI Hur report said he was "confused older man" and couldn't stand trial, yet we sent him back to WH in charge of our nuclear codes. Criminal
Billionaire George Soros’ controlling interest in 227 radio stations — a quarter of the radio stations in the country — appears to be on track, but for the watchful eye of incoming Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr. Soros, and a conglomeration of companies under his control, received unprecedented approval from the FCC for the acquisition of Audacy in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy filing this year. But approval for the leftist billionaire’s purchase of the radio stations, which span 45 media markets reaching 165 million Americans, wasn’t just fast-tracked.
The FCC’s move broke with precedent by skirting a rule that protects U.S. communications channels from foreign influence. The FCC’s expeditious approval of the deal sidestepped the fact that the Soros-controlled Audacy will be more than 25% foreign-owned, which requires additional scrutiny the FCC withheld from the process. Meanwhile, Audacy, presumably under Soros’ auspices, has re-upped a deal with Bloomberg to distribute news content across the syndicate’s news/talk markets.
Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the role, criticized the decision back in September, and told Fox News before Thanksgiving he intends to give the authorization a second look. Incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the role, criticized the anomalous decision back in September, and told Fox News before Thanksgiving he intends to give the authorization a second look.
NEW
The FCC just released the text of its 3-2 decision to approve a Soros backed group’s purchase of 200+ radio stations.
The Commission’s decision today is unprecedented. Never before has the Commission voted to approve the transfer of a broadcast license—let alone the… pic.twitter.com/gnMbl2z8Jb
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