President Trump responded to an article by Newsmax, where their CEO warned that Trump’s FCC is about to give the garbage media a massive expansion into the homes of Americans.
Trump responded by calling for ‘no expansion of the fake news networks”, adding they should be made smaller.
First, here’s the article from Newsmax:
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy took to his network’s airwaves Tuesday night to warn that the FCC, under Brendan Carr, is moving to give the big TV networks massive reach — and pushing through a mega-merger of the anti-Trump Nexstar group.
Current federal law limits any station group or network, such as ABC, CBS, and NBC, from reaching more than 39% of U.S. households.
The limit is part of the “TV ownership cap” President Ronald Reagan first established to block big networks from owning every local station in the country — and controlling their local news.
“Reagan understood if you have left-wing networks like ABC, NBC and CBS – or groups like Nexstar today controlling every local station and their local news — Republicans would have little chance to win in state and federal elections,” Ruddy said.
Ruddy told Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty that if Carr’s plans had been put into place 10 years ago, he doubted Donald Trump would have ever won the presidency or that the GOP would control Congress today.
Trump’s respondse is below:
If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to “enlarge,” I would not be happy. ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster – A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. They should be viewed as an illegal campaign to the Radical Left. NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS. If anything, make them SMALLER! President DJT