The argument for defunding NPR

 The Federalist Wire:

The former president has had enough of the biased media in this country. He’s putting his foot down.

And Donald Trump threatens to shut down this major media corporation.

According to reports from National Public Radio (NPR) Senior Editor Uri Berliner, NPR has 87 registered Democrats on their staff that work in an editorial capacity.

They don’t have any Republicans, however.

Berliner, who aligns more with the Left, has come out against the way NPR has reported on several controversial topics such as Hunter Biden’s laptop, the COVID “lab leak theory,” the 2016 Russian collusion hoax, former President Donald Trump, and Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Former President Donald Trump unsurprisingly has also opposed NPR’s Leftist bias that they frequently use when reporting on key issues. And now he’s calling for them to be defunded completely.

“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP,'” the former president said last Wednesday in a post on Truth Social.

“THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!”

According to Breitbart.com, taxpayer dollars have helped fund NPR by almost 11%.

But if Trump’s calls to defund them entirely come to fruition, then that could be the end of NPR altogether.
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I do not recall the last time I listened to NPR.  I can understand why Donald Trump would be unhappy with them. 

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