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Glenn Beck Suspended after Interviewee 'Threatens' Donald Trump

<p>Radio personality Glenn Beck has been temporarily suspended from Sirius XM radio after an interview with fiction author Brad Thor in which Beck agreed with Thor&rsquo&semi;s &ldquo&semi;threatening&rdquo&semi; comments against GOP nominee Donald Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking with Beck last Wednesday&comma; Thor predicted Trump would turn dictator and cause an &ldquo&semi;extinction-level event&rdquo&semi; for America if elected&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as president&quest;&&num;8221&semi; he asked&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;If Congress won&rsquo&semi;t remove him from office&comma; what patriot will step up and do that if he oversteps his mandate as president&comma; his constitutional-granted authority&quest;&rdquo&semi; continued Thor&comma;&nbsp&semi;further predicting that Congress would never have the balls to impeach Donald Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;I don&rsquo&semi;t think there is a legal means available&period; I think it will be a terrible&comma; terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office because you won&rsquo&semi;t be able to do it through Congress&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;I would agree with you on that&comma;&rdquo&semi; replied Beck&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I think the voices like ours go away&period;&rdquo&semi; And indeed they do&period; After receiving massive amounts of criticism from listeners who believed Thor was implying assassination&comma; Sirius XM made the surprising decision to suspend Beck&&num;8217&semi;s program for one week&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Sirius XM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs&period; However&comma; comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program&comma; in our judgment&comma; may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office&comma; which we cannot and will not condone&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the time being&comma; radio host David Webb will take over Beck&rsquo&semi;s 9-12 slot on Patriot Channel 125&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Beck later commented that Thor was not in any was suggesting or implying that a &ldquo&semi;patriot&rdquo&semi; step up and do harm to the billionaire &ndash&semi; he was only saying that Congress wouldn&rsquo&semi;t have the backbone to impeach Trump should his presidency take a turn for the worse&period; &ldquo&semi;The agenda is to silence all voices that disagree with Donald Trump&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Beck the day after the interview&period; &ldquo&semi;That&rsquo&semi;s all this is&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> First&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve read some of Thor&&num;8217&semi;s books&comma; they are not bad&comma; but he&&num;8217&semi;s no Clive Cussler&period; Second&comma; where was he when Obama stepped over his Constitutional boundaries&quest; &nbsp&semi;This guy is afraid of Trump&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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