President Donald Trump has threatened to bring the full power of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission against NBC News’ Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker over a comment made about his influence in the electorate, marking the first time he’s wielded the power of a U.S. agency to threaten an individual journalist by name.
Welker’s comment was made not on Meet the Press but while on local Washington, D.C. affiliate WRC-TV. The 20-year veteran broadcast journalist said of Trump: “He’s going to loom large over these midterms. There’s no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He’s had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of Senator Darline Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was successful in her primary battle, so now she takes on Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina.”
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Welker’s comment may seem innocuous or even complimentary to Trump by suggesting an outsized importance in this year’s elections. But he did not see it that way.
“Kristen Welker, the unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the long term. How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves? Results are attached. Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
