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‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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The thing is you're confused here, but it's fine because he's confused. It's the wrong ABC. He thinks it's the American broadcasting corporation. And you could be forgiven for thinking that because that's all the identification we get here. This is actually the "Australian" broadcasting corporation. I'm not as familiar, but it looks like their PBS.
There were recent interactions with both nations' ABCs. The OP article where he says "maybe we should go after you" is about US ABC, after a reporter asked about going after hate speech.
In the one about Aus ABC the reporter asked about shady business deals, and the response was "You're hurting Australia" and threatened to tell the Austalian "leader" that the reporter was setting a "bad tone".
US: https://youtu.be/Zxa8diaYNmQ
Aus: https://youtu.be/TzO5nz7hJmo
Somebvody posted a link from Australian ABC about this story, but it was American ABC.
Being an Aussie doesn't mean they won't try and go after him.
It seems to be a recurring theme where Australian Broadcasting Corporation gets attacked. Black lives matter they beat a group of them,, then what else there was another incident just recently.