SiriusXM radio suspended conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck this week after a recent guest on his show warned Donald Trump poses an “extinction-level” threat to the country and suggested a “patriot” might need to remove him from office by any means necessary, Politico reported.
During Wednesday’s “Glenn Beck Radio Program,” fiction writer Brad Thor said he “guarantees” Trump would temporarily suspend the Constitution during his possible presidency and is a “danger to America.”
“With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as President?” Thor said. “If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if he oversteps his mandate as President, his constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as President.”
Beck replied that these were conversations that they had had off-air before.
The remarks were broadly read as Beck and Thor wondering out loud if Trump would be assassinated.
In a statement to Politico, the network said the comments “may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which SiriusXM cannot and will not condone.”
Beck is suspended for a week, the statement said.
Listen to Beck and Thor’s full conversation via the Blaze Radio, starting around four minutes in:
Can’t have someone threaten a fictional President Trump. But planning the death of the actual President Obama, that’s just fair game.
And justifiably so! It’s a shame that this same standard has not been applied to those who have called for similar violence against our President and his family.
All this incessant talk radio blather has pushed the boundaries of civility to a point where some people no longer recognize that they’re fomenting and aiding material harm to others.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here. It’s just another day in right-wing America’s fever swamps. These people have a perpetual loop of Red Dawn playing in their minds. Wolverines!
They should just save some time and fire his stupid ass now.
Love the ‘casual’ conversation between two patriots…honest to Pete.