KAITLAN COLLINS: Tonight, President Trump says overly damaging protection of him is prohibited, as he’s ousting a prosecutor that he picked who declined to indict one in all his political opponents with out sufficient proof.
I’m Kaitlan Collins. And that is THE SOURCE.
Tonight, President Trump is not simply suggesting that some TV networks ought to have their licenses revoked. He now appears to be clearly saying that he — the protection that he deems to be too damaging is prohibited.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The tales are 90 — they stated 97 % unhealthy. So they gave me 97. They’ll take an incredible story they usually’ll make it unhealthy. See, I feel that’s actually unlawful, personally.
You can’t take — you’ll be able to’t have a free airwaves — you’re getting free airwaves from the United States authorities, and you’ll’t have that and say — and anyone that simply gained an election. And I needed to undergo this throughout the election. I feel it’s a miracle that I can win, when 97 % of the tales on the networks are unhealthy.
That’s not free speech. It’s not — that’s simply dishonest.
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COLLINS: Like freedom of the speech, freedom of press is legally protected by the First Amendment. That contains optimistic and damaging protection. It’s not primarily based on percentages both.
The President, although, appears emboldened in the present day, by ABC’s resolution to tug Jimmy Kimmel’s exhibit the air, after the community was dealing with intense stress from the President’s FCC chair.
Other former and present late-night hosts are coming to Jimmy Kimmel’s protection, in latest days, utilizing their very own primetime platforms to accuse the administration of trampling on free speech.