The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.

ABC's lawyer has told a judge that fear of government retaliation is shaping how the network's news division operates, especially around elections. Attorney Beth Wilkinson said Tuesday that threats against ABC, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company, have intensified over two years, and that President Donald Trump commands regulatory leverage he is ready to use against disfavored outlets. She described FCC Chair Brendan Carr as someone who understands his marching orders and called the pressure unconstitutional. In her words, "We sit with our head on the guillotine.", according to MS NOW.

MS NOW columnist Anthony L. Fisher argues this fits a wider pattern of official pressure on speech. He points to Carr's warnings to broadcasters about their licenses over coverage of the Iran war, and to the Associated Press having its White House access restricted for more than a year after declining to adopt the name Gulf of America. Fisher adds that MS NOW, CNN and Politico are still fighting the government's exclusion of them, which officials call a security matter, and that David Ellison, whom he calls compliant with Trump, now owns both CNN and CBS.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →