Trump's FCC Commissioner Threatens Comcast's License Over 'News Distortion' [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 16th, 2025, 10:38 pm
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened news outlets owned by Comcast and suggested the company’s “licensed operations” could be in jeopardy because of its immigration coverage.
On Wednesday, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung slammed MSNBC – a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast – and CNN over their coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Last month, the Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in contravention of a 2019 court order barring his removal to that country. Abrego Garcia’s lawyer has challenged the deportation, which a federal court ruled “illegal.” Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a district court ruling and instructed the administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
So far, however, the Trump administration has refused, stating that the matter is up to the Salvadoran government.
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karolin Leavitt was joined in the briefing room by Patty Morin, whose daughter was raped and murdered by an undocumented immigrant in 2023. He was convicted of the killing this week. Of the three major cable news networks, only Fox News carried the briefing.
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