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Martin Eden

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14. Will Trump do everything he can to punish networks that don't broadcast his speech?

Reply to Quiet Em (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2026, 07:27 PM

3 hrs ago

To avoid the cost of litigation or putting their license at risk with the Trump-controlled FCC, will they go ahead and broadcast the speech even though it is entirely political and a BIG LIE?

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Four years ago networks refused to air Biden speech because it was "political" [View all] Quiet Em 5 hrs ago OP

Okay Dems should be hollerin about this senseandsensibility 5 hrs ago #1

Nutworks are way too RW sensitive. GreenWave 5 hrs ago #2

Most have CAVED to Trump so far, so B.See 5 hrs ago #3

I think we the public need to start being a little louder about the media caving to the con Quiet Em 5 hrs ago #4

Agree. And we can start by turning them off. B.See 5 hrs ago #5

They will never change. Gaytano70 4 hrs ago #9

Well if they air Trump's bullshit, they can all get fucked. Initech 5 hrs ago #6

They normalized this shit over the last few election cycles, and all they got in return for that was being Karasu 5 hrs ago #7

They didn't air it, because the broadcasters Quanto Magnus 4 hrs ago #8

Money makes the world go around. warmfeet 3 hrs ago #10

CBS will.... certainly. QueerDuck 3 hrs ago #11

Conservative bias in the media hurts us all dlk 3 hrs ago #12

The networks are afraid melm00se 3 hrs ago #13

Will Trump do everything he can to punish networks that don't broadcast his speech? Martin Eden 3 hrs ago #14