Nope, when Trump uses the government to get people of the air he doesn’t like it’s a direct attack on the first amendment. The FCC crossed a line when it said we can do things the easy way or the hard way. You are not going to rationalize that to me. This is the government using its power to directly silence voices critical of it. And Trump trying to use Kirk’s assassination to go after the left is a disgusting betrayal of the oath he took. Kirk’s assassin is looking to be not connected to any left wing group much like the evangelical Christian that assassinated the MN state lawmaker and her husband.
But Trump DIDN'T get people "off the air", Trump (or his FCC chairman) is just pressuring networks not to deliberaely lie and distort the news, as multiple networks have been PROVEN to have done, and been successfully SUED for, in selectively editing video interviews to misrepresent Trump, and to make Kamala Harris sound eloquent and competent by slicing her word salad interview into a few lucid soundbytes.
And again, you had NO PROBLEM, NONE with Obama and Biden trying to take Fox News, OAN and Newsmax completely off the air.
Silencing the conservative / Republican half of the country, to create an authoritarian one-party news media, as in Venezuela. ( Which by the way, Obama FCC czar Mark Lloyd called Venezuela's Marxist takeover of all news media there as "Very effective, and a good model to follow.")
Trump is not trying to "silence" the news media, he is trying to get these networks to go back to objectively reporting the news, and not editing people deceptively to omit or add to what they actually said in interviews. Which Trump proved in court with a large settlement in his favor, is exactly what these networks did. TWICE.
It amazes me how you twist the truth into a Democrat narrative, where corrupt evil Democrats magically become the heroes, when the evidence shows over and over Democrats are the corrupt criminals and authoritarians, breaking the law and shamelessly lying to manipulate their way into power, and to frame innocent people.
