Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr did not address a social media post by President Trump demanding Comcast be forced to pay “vast sums” to the federal government when asked repeatedly about the post Thursday.
While appearing at a media summit hosted by the news outlet Semafor, Carr said he had not seen the social media post in question, which the president made over the weekend celebrating the cancellation of MSNBC host Joy Reid’s program.
“This whole corrupt operation is nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democrat Party,” Trump wrote of Comcast, NBC Universal’s parent company. “They should be forced to pay vast sums of money for the damage they’ve done to our Country. Fake News is an UNPARDONABLE SIN!”
Ben Smith, Semafor’s editor in chief, asked Carr about the post, paraphrasing the president’s comments and asking if that was “an FCC issue.”
“If I could see the quote, I’d look at it,” Carr responded.
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