SiriusXM suspends Glenn Beck over Trump comments

SiriusXM satellite radio yesterday announced it suspended Glenn Beck's morning show for at least a week and may not bring it back after Beck agreed with a guest who made comments some interpreted as supporting the assassination of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs," the company said in a statement. "However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced 'Glenn Beck Program,' in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone."

Author Brad Thor said on the May 25 show that Trump was similar to a South American dictator in that if he's elected president and becomes a tyrant, illegal means may be required to remove him from office.

"With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as president?" Thor asked. "If Congress won't remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitutional-granted authority.

"And I don't think there is a legal means available."

Beck responded: "I would agree with you on that, and I don't think you actually have the voices — we've been talking about, we've been talking about this off-air for a while."

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