{"id":8210,"date":"2020-03-27T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:42:56","slug":"trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/press\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign Threats Against TV Stations Airing Ads Critical of President Are Baseless Attempt to Intimidate"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8210","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"\u201cThe Trump campaign\u2019s threat to revoke television station licenses for airing advertisements critical of the President\u2019s actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic raises serious concerns that the President is potentially abusing his power to intimidate and retaliate against political opponents. The FCC has no authority to revoke broadcast licenses for airing political advertisements critical of the President\u2019s actions. More importantly, the President cannot direct the FCC, an independent agency, to take this action.\"","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[134,136,149,2065,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"\u201cThe Trump campaign\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-26\/trump-campaign-s-threat-on-tv-licenses-may-be-mostly-bluster\">threat to revoke television station licenses<\/a> for airing advertisements critical of the President\u2019s actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic raises serious concerns that the President is potentially abusing his power to intimidate and retaliate against political opponents. The FCC has no authority to revoke broadcast licenses for airing political advertisements critical of the President\u2019s actions. More importantly, the President cannot direct the FCC, an independent agency, to take this action.\r\n\r\n\u201cIn the past, the President has suggested the FCC revoke television station licenses for reporting that was critical of his actions. A strong democracy requires a free and independent press to hold our government accountable. The President must be held accountable for his continued attacks on the First Amendment and free press, and potential abuse of power to censor his political opponents.\u201d"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Campaign Threats Against TV Stations Airing Ads Critical of President Are Baseless Attempt to Intimidate - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/press-releases\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Campaign Threats Against TV Stations Airing Ads Critical of President Are Baseless Attempt to Intimidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/drucken\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-campaign-threats-against-tv-stations-airing-ads-critical-of-president-are-baseless-attempt-to-intimidate\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Campaign Threats Against TV Stations Airing Ads Critical of President Are Baseless Attempt to Intimidate - 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