Trump floats punishment for ABC after debate

Former President Trump is suggesting ABC News be punished for what he is calling a hostile performance by the network’s debate moderators on Tuesday evening.

“ABC took a big hit last night,” Trump said Wednesday morning during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.”

“I mean, to be honest, they’re a news organization. They have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”

The Federal Communications Commission does not license major broadcast networks such as ABC, but does license some local stations.

Trump has repeatedly attacked ABC for its coverage of him and routinely blasts the mainstream press as the “enemy of the people” and “fake news.”

After Tuesday’s debate, which pundits on both sides say went poorly for Trump, the former president argued the event was “three on one,” and has not accepted Harris’s challenge to meet for a second clash.

Trump last year threatened Comcast Corp., the parent company of NBC News and MSNBC, with investigations if he is elected president, citing what he called “Country Threatening Treason.”

Media watchdogs and political analysts have long warned that Trump’s attacks on media outlets could lead to violence against journalists.