For Trump supporters, it felt like a pile-on, with some even dubbing the event “The Roast of Donald Trump, Sponsored by ABC.” The real kicker came when Muir interrupted Trump to debunk his assertion that Democrats support “executing babies after birth,” and again when he refuted Trump’s bizarre story about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, dining on the neighborhood pets.
“ABC’s moderators turned the debate into a truth-policing circus,” claimed an irate Trump supporter on social media. “We wanted a fair fight, not a fact-check fest!”
Enter NBC Comcast, swooping in to defend the honor of the former president and, apparently, the entire nation. Just days after the debate, NBC Comcast did the unthinkable: they blacked out ABC from their cable and streaming services, leaving millions of viewers to wonder why their regularly scheduled dose of The Bachelorette or Good Morning America had been replaced with nothing but static.
