ABC Fires Back Against Trump Goon’s ‘Unprecedented’ Probe of ‘The View’

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ABC filed a strongly worded rebuke to the Trump-backed Federal Communications Commission’s “unprecedented” and “counterproductive” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-media-goon-launches-petty-investigation-into-the-view/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-media-goon-launches-petty-investigation-into-the-view/">probe against The View.

In the network’s https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10507899614175/1" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10507899614175/1">incendiary filing, made public on Friday, ABC did not mince words in defending the talk show’s “equal time” qualifications that Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened earlier this year.

“The Commission’s order to file this Petition for Declaratory Ruling is unprecedented, beyond the Commission’s authority, and counterproductive to the Commission’s stated goal of encouraging free speech and open political discussion.

The Commission’s actions threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly,” ABC wrote in the filing on behalf of their Houston affiliate, KTRK.

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