Trump is threatening to revoke the license of NBC News. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you if he can. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT: https://goo.gl/v8E64M
“Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
“With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!” Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump’s tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America’s nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed steady reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
“Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a ‘tenfold’ increase in our US nuclear arsenal,” Mr Trump had tweeted before his threat. “Pure fiction, mad eup to demean. NBC = CNN!”
The President has regularly targeted news networks critical of him since January, when he gave a press conference as President-elect and shouted down a CNN reporter as “fake news”. The term – which Mr Trump says he invented but had been used frequently before to describe the proliferation of stories written by anonymous bloggers to spread lies during the 2016 election – has since become one of his go-to insults when the media publishes critical coverage of the Trump administration.”
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