Robert Corn-Revere

So there's been multiple, um, you know, attacks against the press, Will.

Just today, my colleague, uh, Bob Corn-Revere, is arguing in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis.

He's defending the pollster Ann Selzer, who was sued personally by the president for a poll that she put out in October, uh, 2024, that had former Vice President Harris in the lead.

She got a poll wrong.

Experts contrasted federal regulators' actions between the first and second Trump administrations.

Robert Corn Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, referenced a stark difference in the FCC leaderships specifically.

After Trump suggested broadcasters license should be challenged over fake news in 2017, for example, then FCC chairman Ajit Pai said the agency does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.

By contrast, current FCC chair Brendan Carr responded to Trump's Truth Social Post criticizing news coverage of the United States' war against Iran in March by saying, "...broadcasters running hoaxes and news distortions, also known as fake news, have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up." Disney and ABC's lawsuit also noted the timing of the FCC's early license renewal order, which came one day after Trump called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired after saying First Lady Melania Trump had a glow like an expectant widow.