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As even an occasional reader of this column knows, I am no fan of President Trump. But I will give Trump credit where credit is due. Only Donald Trump could make me agree with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). In fact, I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read Cruz’s acid comments on attempts by Trump and his lapdog FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to silence any media critics of the president.

Cruz was responding to Carr’s statement after ABC suspended late-night’s Jimmy Kimmel, that if other media companies didn’t also shut down such critics the federal government might have to step in and do so. Which President Trump amplified by suggesting that he’d be willing to yank the broadcast license of networks which, in his opinion, didn’t treat him kindly enough. “If they're 97 percent against, they give me only bad publicity or press,” he told reporters on Air Force One. “I mean, if they're getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away.” 

This is “dangerous as hell,” Cruz bellowed last Friday on his........

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