# Trump threatens to report journalist Kristen Welker to broadcast regulator

https://mins.news/en/item/37768

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-30 17:22 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/trump-threatens-to-report-journalist-kristen-welker-to-broadcast-regulator?traffic_source=rss

> US President Donald Trump says he will report NBC journalist Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for “rebuke or punishment” after she described his endorsements in primary elections as having “mixed results”. Trump has increasingly threatened to use the agency against what he calls false news media.

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