Trump’s big boasts backfire in his court battle with ABC

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 16, 2026 · 4m

Trump’s Own Posts Built the Case Against HimPower Has a NameThis is not a story about hurt feelings between a president and a network. It is a story about institutional power being used as a threat. Trump is the one with the leverage. Brendan Carr, the FCC chair described here as Trump’s “slavishly devoted accomplice,” is the mechanism. ABC is the target trying to defend itself after the administration turned regulatory power into a political cudgel.That is the core fact the whole saga tries to blur: when a president talks like a mob boss and his regulator acts like a loyalist, that is not…