FCC threats against Trump's rivals poised to backfire on him: legal expert

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By Matthew Chapman
Published July 17, 2026 7:47 PM ET

President Donald Trump wants to lean even harder than ever on Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr to strip broadcast licenses from networks that don't do his bidding — but he is playing with fire, a legal expert warned.

According to Politico, the drama kicked off after NBC and ABC both declined to carry Trump's Thursday night prime-time address on election security live, prompting the president to demand the Federal Communications Commission strip both networks of their broadcast licenses entirely. Trump didn't hold back on Truth Social, framing the snub as evidence of corruption.

"Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses," Trump said.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fcc-2677241557/

Let me get this straight a 34 count convicted fraudster is saying that ABC and NBC is fraud...........has the traitor looked in the mirror...........

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1. What legal expert? Sounds interesting

but flawed story often does not identify the sources it copies from.

[Jack Valentino]

2. For about the ten-thousandth time, broadcast NETWORKS do not have licenses---

nor is there any such thing as a broadcast licence for a broadcasting 'network'---
so there IS no such 'license" to cancel----


Some of the networks DO own individual broadcasting stations,
which DO require a license-- which is where Trump and his
pet FCC could attack them---

but most of the networks own relatively few broadcast stations anymore....

so even if Trump's FCC managed to shut down their few number
of owned stations, that would be very unlikely to
'shut down the network'.....