Speaker 1: In the aftermath of the failed
assassination attempt against Donald Trump, one of the stories that's been increasingly told is that
pointing out the threats posed by Trump. Insights. Violence against Trump. Now, this doesn't make any
sense. It's it's absolutely ridiculous. But one of the arguments we heard made by Trump's defenders
after the failed assassination attempt was, you know, they tried to kill him because of these
claims that Trump is a threat to democracy or that Trump is a threat to the media, or that
Trump is a threat to institutions. Of course, this ignored that. They was one Republican.
Let's put that aside just for a moment here. But this idea that not only does it incite
violence against Trump to suggest this guy is a threat in a number of different ways, but also
that it's not true is very much undercut every single week by the things Donald Trump says and
does. And we have another example. Trump was so triggered and distraught by the way, that Kamala
Harris made him look, quite frankly, incompetent and almost like he's having a cognitive
issue and can't think when he just she goes, Your rallies have people leaving. He goes, they're
reading dogs and cats. What Trump was so triggered by it that he wants ABC News shut down because
he lost the debate. Trump has been demanding that ABC News be shut down because of what he
says was their bias during the debate. Now, I want to remind you, you can make the argument
that. Debate moderators should or shouldn't fact check. You can make the argument that there
should be some kind of screening. I don't know for who gets to moderate. But understand
that the fact checking that these moderators did was with regard to only very basic things,
like, for example, Trump saying he won the 2020 election and the moderators said, you didn't win.
Joe Biden won. That that's called bias goes to the absurd expectation that Trump and his supporters
have about how these debates should be run. But let's put that aside for a moment. Donald Trump
wants ABC to have their license taken away because he doesn't like how the debate. Why don't me?
Speaker 4: What's your reaction to the moderators or because they're dishonest and because I
think ABC took a big hit last night. I mean, to be honest. They're a news organization. They
have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.
Speaker 1: They ought. When David Muir said you didn't win the 2020 election, Trump considers
that such a travesty of journalism that ABC News should be pulled off the air. When Linsey
Davis said there is currently no state that allows post-birth abortion. Trump believes that
such aggressive wrongdoing that ABC News should be pulled off the air, their license taken away,
and everybody who works for ABC News should lose their jobs. This is part of why he shouldn't be
president. This is the contempt for the free press that we've been warning people about. Not that
we needed more data to issue that warning. We saw what happened during his first term with regard
to a free press, and Trump has been threatening to take other media outlets off the air. He's talked
about how MSNBC, which he refers to as Mr. DNC, may not be allowed to have a license if he's
president again. So it's not just going back to what I talked about at the top of this
segment. It's not just that pointing out, hey, this guy's contempt for institutions, a
free press and democracy are a real problem. It's not just that that's not inciting violence
against Trump. It's just telling things as they are. It's that it's absolutely true. And we must
talk about it. We must talk about it. Imagine if Kamala Harris said, hey, you know. I don't know
that Newsmax should be allowed to be on the air. I just I just don't know. I'm not sure. If I
were president, I would create a team to review whether Newsmax should be on the air. It would
be 24 seven news on right wing media. Hannity would do a special emergency thing on it. Patrick
But David would do a so-called emergency podcast about it. They would all be saying this This is
a threat in an encroachment upon a free press. And Trump regularly says ABC should lose their
license because they lost the debate. MSNBC should lose their license because they whatever, don't
love me or whatever the case may be. If anything, we need to be talking more about the threat
to a free press that Donald Trump represents.