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Trump Blows a Gasket and Releases Statement Slamming AT&T for Dumping Propaganda Network OAN, ‘Lunatics!’

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Very very few people knew that AT&T was the money behind OAN, the group that got the channel up and running. As soon as it became general knowledge, AT&T users started dumping the company as a means of protesting putting up a channel dedicated to propaganda and spreading misinformation.

OAN had been Trump’s favorite “news” station, which is different than evening opinion shows, where Trump remains a Hannity guy, a Dobbs guy, a Bartiromo guy, etc. Both OAN and Newsmax were made for the crowd that thought Fox was too “liberal.”

OAN was never that big, it had to compete with Fox, Newsmax, and all the stuff on the net, so the money was in trouble anyway. This is from the Daily Beast from two weeks ago, when Direct TV dropped OAN and OAN blamed AT&T for not fighting for it:

Airing a graphic that featured AT&T’s customer support number and a picture of AT&T chairman William Kennard, Ball noted that Kennard had “connections to the Obamas and Clintons for decades.”…

“If you have any dirt on Mr. Kennard, I’d love to see it and put it on this program,” the Real America host exclaimed.

“You bring me concrete evidence of whatever it may be: cheating on his taxes, cheating on his wife, saying racial slurs against white people,” Ball added, unsubtly referencing the fact that Kennard is Black. “Whatever it may be. Find it for me. Bring it, and we will air it.”

He wrapped his plea by saying, “Everybody’s got dirty little sins and secrets they’re hiding” and that Kennard “deserves to have his exposed” over DirecTV deciding to cut ties with One America News

It looks like AT&T has dumped OAN for good, which will almost surely sink the network, and Trump just released a statement. He is not happy about it at all:

Does Trump even know what he’s saying? If “too many” people were watching OAN, AT&T would find a way to justify keeping it and Direct TV wouldn’t have dropped it.

But one can feel Trump’s fury. It is getting harder and harder for him to get his message out and he knows it. There is a bit of panic in that statement.

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