Fox News Cancels Ad Calling for Trump’s Impeachment ‘Due to Negative Reaction’ From Viewers (Video)

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Fox News has canceled an ad calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment due to “strong negative reaction” from its viewers.

As NCRM has reported, the ad accuses Donald Trump of “raising the likelihood of nuclear war with North Korea, obstructing justice in his termination of former FBI director James Comey, violating the Constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down press organizations that report the truth.”

The ads are financed by philanthropist and Democratic activist Tom Steyer, and began running two weeks ago. On October 27th, Newsweek reported, Steyer “bought a second week of advertising in a prime time Fox News slot as part of an $11 million ad buy.”

The president, a frequent Fox News viewer, drew attention to the ad just last week in an attack on Steyer.

“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer,” Donald Trump – of course – tweeted, “who has been fighting my Make America Great Again agenda from the beginning, never wins elections!”

Steyer appeared Friday on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes,” where he confirmed Fox had terminated his contract for the ads and questioned the president’s tweet. “Fox News, subsequent to [the president’s tweet],” Steyer said, “refused to fulfill their contract with us – which was to continue to run our ad.”

“We don’t know why,” he continued, “we don’t know whether it was a request from the White House… but what we do know is that they are censoring the voice of a million, six Americans that have an opinion that they’re either scared of or they’re scared to air.”

“After the tweet, they pulled the ad?” Hayes asked. “They’re no longer running it on their air?” 

“Correct,” Steyer replied. “In violation of the contract that we had with them.” Watch: 

Steyer also addressed the cancelation via Twitter:

Fox News confirmed that the network had pulled the ad. “Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money,” Jack Abernethy, the channel’s co-president, said in a statement.

Steyer’s legal counsel, in a letter to Abernathy, wrote to “protest [their] baseless and unethical decision.”

They further called the cancellation “not only a breach of your agreement with Mr. Steyer,” but also “a profound failure of journalistic integrity, a suppression of constitutionally protected speech, and likely a consequence of inexcusable political pressure.”

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