Trump ignores First Amendment again and says news network should be investigated over Harris interview

Donald Trump has once again threatened a major broadcast network after he dropped out of an interview with 60 Minutes on CBS.

He baselessly suggested that the network did something criminal when the program interviewed his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, and claimed without evidence that the interview violated campaign finance laws.

“I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of60 Minutes sliced and diced (‘cut and pasted’) Lyin’ Kamala’s answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought, all in an effort, possibly illegal as part of the ‘News Division,’ which must be licensed, to make her look ‘more Presidential,’ or a least, better,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.

He claimed that the interview may amount to a “major Campaign Finance Violation” and demanded a “MAJOR AND IMMEDIATE APOLOGY.”

The former president, raising spurious allegations of corruption and bias, has repeatedly threatened to somehow revoke broadcast licenses for major networks that air critical coverage.

Last month, Trump demanded that the news network that hosted his first and only matchup with Harrishave its “license” revoked after his widely panned performance.

He called in to Fox News the morning after the late-night debate to blame ABC News moderators and the network and suggested he would not 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, referencing moderators’ real-time fact checks of several false claims, including conspiracy theories about immigrants stealing and eating pets and “after