“When you’re using public airwaves and you cover a candidate for months, you cover him as a negatively as possible — or her, could be her — and then, all of a sudden that candidate wins in a landslide and it’s very exciting and everybody wants to watch and you don’t cover his speech, it’s incredible.
“I guess it was Fake Tapper or somebody turned it off, he said, ‘Turn it off. I think, actually, MSNBC did do it — ‘MSDNC’ — but they did do it too.
“But I think it was CNN that didn’t cover it. Jake Tapper, who I used to know and actually sort of liked him, actually, but he hurts himself very badly when he does a thing like that. And he hurts the ratings, too. You look at CNN ratings, they’re so bad.
“You’re covering someone for a year, and this is the culmination, this is the big moment, and people want to watch it, and you say, ‘I’m not going to put his speech on.’ How can you do that?” – Trump, when asked about his threats to revoke the FCC licenses of critical outlets.
And once again, we note that cable outlets like CNN and MSNBC do not broadcast over “public airwaves” and therefore do not hold licenses to do so.
HOWARD KURTZ: Do you believe Putin has some responsibility for the death of Navalny?
TRUMP: I don’t know pic.twitter.com/82LuPQa0gP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Trump on criticism that he’s using the same rhetoric as Hitler when he calls migrants “vermin”: “I didn’t know that, but that’s what they say.”
He then doubles down on the Nazi rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/oBnlFEFA2m
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Trump defends his comments encouraging Russian aggression against NATO allies: “It sounds like somebody that wants to get people to pay money.” pic.twitter.com/PgAs52MJyG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Trump on if a national 16 week abortion ban would be politically acceptable: “We’re gonna find out.”
He then lies about Democrats supporting the murder of born babies. pic.twitter.com/B5e41m9ftm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Trump: “Would I would like to see is that if you’re gonna do it to TikTok, do it to Facebook.” (Facebook is an American company.) pic.twitter.com/PDYd2whUJt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Asked about his recent comments endorsing cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Trump quickly pivots to calling for more oil drilling and tariffs pic.twitter.com/XmVqufdcKR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2024
Question: Do you believe Putin has some responsibility for the death of Navalny?
Trump: I don’t know but perhaps. Possibly I could say probably. I don’t know. He’s a young man so statistically he’d be alive for a long time. pic.twitter.com/5QCQNzAj9x
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 17, 2024
Trump Goes Hard After CNN and ‘Fake Tapper’ When Confronted By Fox News Host About His Threats Against Network Licenses https://t.co/xflo2dnpyl
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 17, 2024