As RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported, President Trump delivered a bombshell speech Thursday night and revealed that our election systems are much more vulnerable than the Democrats and the media would have you believe, and that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have taken notice and have actively tried to interfere with voting integrity.
One part of the speech that really stood out to me was his devastating attack on much of the nation’s media, which has become more and more politically biased to the Left over the decades, to the point where almost nobody even disputes it anymore. We all know it’s true, and to pretend otherwise anymore makes you look like a fool.
Between pushing the fake Russia collusion hoax, COVID misinformation, Joe Biden’s “excellent” mental health, and so much more — while repressing real discussion on vaccine questions, Democratic Socialists’ extremist and often violent rhetoric, etc. — they have done serious damage to the country, and I agree with a tweet by the RNC tonight: they have become the “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.”
If you don’t think they openly put their thumbs on the scale, note this: as our Ward Clark reported earlier Thursday, two major networks, ABC and NBC, announced they were refusing to air the speech — before he had even begun delivering it. CNN covered it as a "news event," while MS NOW cut away, as you will see in a moment.
Trump unloaded on them, quite fairly, for their endlessly betraying the trust of the American people, over and over and over again.
.@POTUS: "In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech... because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part of the… pic.twitter.com/gLwanu8gaK
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026
The clip is less than a minute long, but the blistering takedown perfectly defines the enemy that we are facing:
.@POTUS : "In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech... because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part of the plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the Radical Left. You can’t have a great country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses—they use our public multi-billion-dollar in value airwaves for absolutely no money... all we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting."
Verdict: 100 percent true.
Here’s MS NOW’s misinformation queen Jen Psaki, who unbelievably was the White House press secretary herself under Joe Biden, despite the fact that she's clearly afraid of the truth or any pushback on her far-left reality. She displays a shocking lack of courage or neutrality at the 33-second mark of this clip:
MSDNC — which a few call "MS NOW" but many others call "group therapy for the mentally deranged" — cut out immediately as @POTUS started to describe shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. pic.twitter.com/PVb4kLeOVF
That isn’t news, folks; it’s propaganda. Think she or her network would ever do that to Barack Obama?
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Maybe they don’t deserve their broadcast licenses, the president noted:
🚨 NOW: President Trump demands the FCC broadcast licenses be REVOKED from the networks like ABC and NBC refusing to air his speech tonight
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 17, 2026
"Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses!" 🔥
"They use our public multi-billion dollar in value airways for absolutely… pic.twitter.com/9zOZCFAAbE
🚨 NOW: President Trump demands the FCC broadcast licenses be REVOKED from the networks like ABC and NBC refusing to air his speech tonight
"Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses!" 🔥
"They use our public multi-billion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing."
"In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don't like the topic because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. But they and others in the media are part of a plot!"
"They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left."
"They can't have a great country. And that's true. You can't have a great country without free and fair elections."
One of the reasons I got into this business was because I was so shocked at how corrupt the mainstream — call them what you want, “corporate, “legacy,” “establishment” — media had become and how easily they lied and misinformed the American public.
There’s good news, though: the game changed on them, and they didn’t count on folks like Rush Limbaugh coming along and conservative outlets like RedState and others fighting back. It’s a major reason why Donald Trump is president right now — and is our hope for the future.
We won’t stop fighting.
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