{"id":4688,"date":"2026-07-17T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:06:32","slug":"cbs-cuts-away-from-trumps-election-fraud-speech-as-abc-and-nbc-refused-to-air-it-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"CBS cuts away from Trump’s election fraud speech \u2014 as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CBS News aired part of President Trump\u2019s prime-time speech on election fraud Thursday night, joining in late and switching away as the commander-in-chief\u00a0called for ABC and NBC to lose their licenses for not showing his remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Before tuning into Trump\u2019s speech, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil explained why the network was airing it: \u201cMuch of what the President has said on [security of American elections] has been false.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an argument that it\u2019s irresponsible to air the president\u2019s speech tonight. But this speech will be made. It will be news. And it\u2019s our job to cover the news,\u201d Dokoupil said.<\/p>\n

CBS ended its coverage about five minutes before Trump finished speaking, shortly after the president called on the other two broadcast networks to lose their government licenses for not airing his remarks at all.<\/p>\n

Dokoupil then began fact-checking Trump\u2019s claims about Chinese interference in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

News networks are not obligated to air the president\u2019s remarks and executives typically make decisions based on the content of the speech.<\/p>\n

When Trump gave a primetime address in April on the war with Iran, all the networks carried it live.<\/p>\n

Still, the president and his staff were publicly angry at the news outlets that didn\u2019t air Trump\u2019s 25-minute speech on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Trump, in his remarks, claimed China worked with some American journalists to discredit him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He said ABC and NBC knew the topic he would speak on and didn\u2019t \u201clike\u201d it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey knew what it was about because of the fact that they don\u2019t like the topic because they know how corrupt our system is, and they don\u2019t want to reveal it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He demanded: \u201cFraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC and NBC carried the speech on their streaming platforms but did not air it live on their TV networks. The latter also aired a network special after the speech wrapped. \u00a0<\/p>\n

White House communications director Steven Cheung blasted their decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cCowards. NBC and ABC don\u2019t want you to hear the truth. All they want to do is hide the facts from YOU,\u201d he wrote on X ahead of the president\u2019s remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On the cable side, CNN did not air the speech live, but Fox News did. MS Now aired parts of Trump\u2019s remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cable networks do not have a broadcast license from the Federal Communications Commission, as the broadcast networks have.<\/p>\n

The FCC has the legal authority to revoke a broadcast license or deny its renewal but any such move would likely face a lengthy legal challenge from the networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CBS News aired part of President Trump’s prime-time speech on election fraud, joining in late and cutting out before it finished \u2014 and the president called for ABC and NBC to lose their broadcast licenses for not airing his remarks at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nCBS cuts away from Trump's election fraud speech \u2014 as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV - Metro Transit Review<\/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:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4688\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CBS cuts away from Trump's election fraud speech \u2014 as ABC and NBC refused to air it on TV - 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