Trump in NRB Speech Says He'll Protect AM Radio in Cars
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday night vowed he would “protect AM radio in our cars” should he return to the White House. Addressing the National Religious Broadcasters Presidential Forum, he said “we’re going to protect the content that is…
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pro-God.” Millions of Americans “value listening to Christian broadcasters, and you're under siege,” said Trump, who pledged to create a federal task force fighting “anti-Christian bias.” He praised Salem Media, the largest Christian-focused broadcaster in the U.S., for its courageous work and for employing former Trump deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka. “I will never allow the big media left-wing pressure groups to silence you, censor you, discriminate against you, or in any way tell you what you have to say,” the former president said. Before Trump took the stage, Salem radio host and Fox News personality Hugh Hewitt told the audience that Hamas, Iran, Russian state-controlled media and the People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping also are "religious broadcasters," comparing them to cults that toe ideological lines. In addition, Hewitt classified U.S. legacy media such as CNN and MSNBC as another sort of religious broadcasting, which he called “secular absolutism.” The "only difference between their religious broadcasting and our religious broadcasting is that their scripture isn't written down,” Hewitt said.