Trump Suggests Challenge to NBC's 'License,' Calls Media's Free Rein 'Disgusting'
President Donald Trump’s insults, threats and challenges to journalists have led to questions of whether the Commander-in-Chief respects the First Amendment.
Trump — a president who’s quick to shout “fake news!” on Twitter or directly at a reporter, despite his own ceaseless falsehoods — tweeted Wednesday: "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!"
The tweet, posted at 9:55 a.m. ET, came after NBC News broke a story that Trump had asked for a “nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal” at the same July 20 meeting where Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called Trump a “moron.”
NBC’s story was based on information from three anonymous officials the broadcaster said were in the room at the meeting of U.S. national security leaders.
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