The Independent has requested comment from ABC and Trump’s transition team.
He has suggested that journalists and publishers should be jailed for shielding their sources, repeatedly threatened to yank TV broadcast licenses, and filed several unsuccessful lawsuits taking aim at First Amendment protections enshrined by the Supreme Court’s long-standing precedent in New York Times v Sullivan.
Last month, Carr criticized the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, calling her pre-election cameo “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.” NBC later aired a message from Trump.
