Trump threatens to report journalist Kristen Welker to broadcast regulator

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President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he intends to report NBC journalist Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Trump stated his reason for this action is Welker's characterization of his candidate endorsements as having "mixed results" in recent primaries. He questioned how such a statement could be made by someone working with public airwaves. Trump also shared a chart claiming 98% of his endorsed candidates won their elections. This is not the first time Trump has expressed dissatisfaction with Welker, having had a contentious interview with her in June where he accused her and other networks of being "crooked." The article notes that the FCC under Trump has previously attempted to target news outlets for spreading "fake" news.

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Trump previously called Welker, 'Meet the Press', and other networks 'crooked' and 'one-sided'.

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Trump took issue with Welker's characterization of his endorsements as having 'mixed results'.

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Donald Trump threatened to report journalist Kristen Welker to the FCC for 'rebuke or punishment'.

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Trump posted a chart claiming 98% of his endorsed candidates won their elections.

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The Federal Communications Commission under Trump has tried to target news outlets for spreading ‘fake’ news.United States President Donald Trump says he will report a prominent NBC television journalist to the federal agency in charge of regulating broadcast news outlets for “rebuke or punishment”.In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump took issue with Kristen Welker’s characterisation of his endorsements of electoral candidates as having “mixed results” in the primaries leading up to November’s elections.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Disney sues US regulator, claiming political retaliation over ABC stationslist 2 of 3Federal judge dismisses Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against NYTlist 3 of 3Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Trump administration for censorshipend of list“How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given public airwaves?” Trump wrote. He also posted, without any attribution of where he got the data, a chart showing 98 percent of the candidates he endorsed had won their elections.“Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC,” the Federal Communications Commission, he said.Welker hosted the 2020 presidential election debate between Trump and former President Joe Biden and currently hosts NBC’s weekly news programme Meet the Press.‘Crooked networks’In June, Welker had a one-on-one interview with Trump that ended in a heated exchange as she pressed the Republican president on continuing to claim the Democratic Party had cheated in the 2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated Trump.“Your elections are crooked, and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and CNN. You’re one-sided crooked networks,” Trump said shortly before pulling off his microphone and leaving the interview.Trump, who has long had a tumultuous relationship with those US television news networks, has increasingly threatened to use the FCC to target what he says is false news.

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