Furious Trump threatens ABC’s broadcast license after Kamala Harris debate

After his widely panned performance at his first and potentially final debate against Kamala Harris, Donald Trump demanded that the news network that hosted the matchup have its “license” revoked.

Trump, still fuming just hours after Tuesday’s late-night debate, called into Fox News to blame the ABC News moderators and the network and suggested he won’t want to do another debate at all.

“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,” he told Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, referencing moderators’ real-time fact checks ofseveral false claims, including conspiracy theories about immigrants stealing and eating pets and “after birth” abortions.

“It was three-to-one. It was a rigged deal,” he said.

Hours later, in an email through his campaign’s primary fundraising arm, he wrote “I love ABC News.”

“I don’t know that I want to do another debate,” he told Fox & Friends. “I’d be less inclined to because we had a great night, we won the debate, we had a terrible, terrible network … They should be embarrassed.”

He claimed he won the debate “92 to seven” and that it was “maybe my best debate.”

Trump also suggested that he believed Harris was being fed her answers.

“Kamala doesn’t do any shows. … That’s not fair to the public because they don’t know what they’re getting. But they saw last night what they had. They had a rigged show with somebody who maybe even had the answers,” he said.

“I watched her talk, and I said, ‘you know, she seems awfully familiar with the questions,’ and you get pretty good at that stuff after a while, but when I saw how totally rigged that was, I take a look at it and I watch, and I say, ‘You know, you