Maduro and Putin must be celebrating Trump’s threat to revoke NBC’s license

Late Venezuelan populist demagogue Hugo Chávez must have cheered in his grave when President Donald Trump made a veiled threat to pull NBC off the air for spreading news he dislikes. That’s exactly what Chávez did, and what most Third World dictators do. Trump’s Oct. 12 statement on Twitter raised the possibility of not renewing NBC’s license, much like Chávez did when he shut down Venezuela’s RCTV network in 2007, claiming that it was airing fake news. More…