US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (November 18) threatened that broadcasting licenses used by affiliates of Walt Disney-owned ABC should be “taken away” after he clashed with a reporter from the network during an Oval Office event with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The confrontation occurred when an ABC News reporter asked Trump about the political fallout surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The question appeared to irritate the President, who dismissed it as inappropriate for the moment and sharply rebuked the network.

The President did not specify what legal grounds he believed would permit the government to revoke broadcast licenses — a process that is controlled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and requires evidence of serious violations, not disagreem

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