The most media averse president in American history, Donald Trump, is notching yet another new low in his mission to exact revenge on journalists who dare to cover him and his MAGA movement honestly. This is part of Trump’s ongoing crusade against the Constitution’s First Amendment protection of a free press.

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Apparently it has not been enough for Trump to repeatedly file lawsuits against the media, or to banish them from the White House, or to lob infantile insults at reporters (usually women), or to assist his billionaire pals in media acquisitions, or even to accuse them of treason and threaten to imprison them.

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Trump’s animosity to the free press is a double edged sword. He hates it when it is less than wholly worshipful. But he still craves the attention it brings him. And as he walks that fine line he directs his flunkies to persecute the press in order to force them into compliance.

On this occasion that resulted in an ominous message from Trump’s FCC (Fascist Communications Commission) chairman, Brendan Carr, that was reported by Politico, one of the news companies that Trump is currently banning. Carr tweeted that…

“During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm.

Note that Carr doesn’t bother to cite a single example of this “significant surge” of “Fake Polls.” Nor does he document any evidence that they are designed to interfere with the electoral process. If Trump is having problems with turnout and enthusiasm, it’s due entirely to his his own dreadful performance in office that has sown record lows in favorability. But he went to say that…

“Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.

Once again, Carr doesn’t cite a single instance of a journalist “amplifying” any poll that fails to meet “basic journalistic ethics.” And the media has no obligation to inform the public of a lack of “real basis” when no such lack exists. But he still wasn’t finished. He continued…

“The FCC takes these issues seriously. Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes. It is important that broadcasters comply with their public interest obligations. After all, the country benefits greatly when Americans can trust and rely on the media to report the news fairly and accurately.

Once again, again, Carr makes wild, unsupported claims that unnamed broadcasters are “engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes.” How dare they? That, after all, is Trump’s specialty. And the country would certainly benefit greatly if Americans could rely on a president who wasn’t a pathological liar. Then Carr wrapped up with a threat, saying that…

“Broadcasters are advised to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes by airing Polls that would violate their regulatory obligations.”

Carr is going way out of the bounds of his jurisdiction by presuming that he can determine what constitutes “News Distortions.” And it’s clear that his determinations of distortions would just be whatever Trump doesn’t like. What’s more, Carr has no authority to punish national broadcasters who are not licensed by the federal government. So this entire episode is a blatant attempt to intimidate the media and impose on their freedom to report as they see fit. It’s a tactic that Trump learned from his idols Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.

For the record, Deadline reports that there actually was a recent fake poll. However, it was designed deliberately to expose the cracks in “how polling data is vetted,” not to affect the outcome of any election. This phony Wedgewood Poll was revealed by its creators shortly after they completed their experiment. It hardly represented a surge in fake polls. And Carr never mentioned it.

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