Chuck Ross with our friends at the Washington Free Beacon had a story Monday morning recapping Truth Social posts by President-Elect Trump over the holidays based in part on the site’s November 12 bombshell that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign gave a cool $500,000 donation to race hustler Al Sharpton’s group National Action Network and was conveniently followed two weeks later by a slobbering interview.
Trump called this and other campaign donations to the likes of Beyonce and Oprah Winfrey’s production company “totally against the law,” which Ross noted “raise[d] questions about whether Trump could take action in his second presidential term to block Comcast's proposed spinoff of its news networks,” which they had “announced plans to” do so back in November “to separate its movie studios from the dwindling cable TV business.”
Ross said “Comcast and MSNBC did not return requests for comment,” adding the company could be in for serious government scrutiny:
At least one industry expert said that while he did not expect the spinoff to face headwinds from federal agencies, Trump was an "X factor" that could gum up the process. Trump could "slow-down or otherwise interfere with the transaction," said investment analyst Blair Levin, who noted that MSNBC is a "major Trump nemesis."
Last year, Trump posted that, if reelected, he would investigate Comcast over what he called "one-side[d] and vicious coverage" from the media conglomerate's flagship news channels, NBC and MSNBC.
And Trump could be emboldened to take on the media conglomerate after winning a $15 million legal settlement last month with ABC News over comments from host George Stephanopoulos, who falsely claimed Trump was found liable for raping a woman in the 1990s.
To read Ross’s full article, click here.