If Brendan Carr and the US president\u2019s attacks on the press aren\u2019t stopped, the outcome could be dire<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, Donald Trump fumed on Truth Social about newspapers covering attacks on US tanker aircrafts in Saudi Arabia. Within hours, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr reposted<\/a> Trump\u2019s rant and vowed to revoke the licenses of broadcasters who air what he called \u201cfake news\u201d. For some extra brownie points, Carr tossed in a line about Trump\u2019s \u201clandslide election victory\u201d, too.<\/p>\n Early on Monday, Trump completed the sycophantic cycle with a second post announcing<\/a> that he\u2019s \u201cthrilled\u201d by Carr\u2019s threats and accusing unnamed media outlets of \u201ctreason\u201d and a lack of patriotism for reporting on AI fakes linked to Iran. (It\u2019s not clear what Trump was referring to, since the media has regularly reported on those fakes to debunk<\/a> them.)<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If Brendan Carr and the US president\u2019s attacks on the press aren\u2019t stopped, the outcome could be dire Over the weekend, Donald Trump fumed on Truth Social about newspapers covering attacks on US tanker aircrafts in Saudi Arabia. Within hours, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr reposted Trump\u2019s rant and vowed to revoke the licenses … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}