During a conversation with Tucker Carlson, co-founder of the Daily Caller, Dan Ball, host of One America News Network (OANN), asserted that Democrats supposedly made efforts to close down the network after the 2020 election. Ball joined Carlson’s show on Twitter to delve into his allegations regarding Democratic involvement in attempts to shut down OANN between 2021 and 2022. Carlson initiated the discussion by inquiring about the origins of the issue, prompting Ball to recount their coverage of the well-known Hunter Biden laptop, initially reported by the New York Post.
“So that’s when it really started, okay? They looked at us and went ‘Oh, my God, these guys are going to interfere with the election’ because we’re spitting truth to power,” Ball stated. “We’re telling you this laptop is real. The big guy is Joe Biden. He’s taking 10% he’s used his family and his influence to make millions to enrich himself. Well, they didn’t like that very much.”
“And then, of course, COVID,” Ball continued. “We’re in the middle of COVID. We busted through the narrative of the masks aren’t working. When Joe took over and he told everybody to get the vaccine, he was talking about that ‘winter of death’ and everything. We were talking about the irregularities rather you’d see with the vaccine when it comes to side effects and deaths. They didn’t like that.”
“So it was kind of cascading downward from the Hunter Biden laptop story to COVID coverage, and then we had the 2020 election, okay? And we had people on, of course, discussing irregularities in the election. They didn’t like any of that. So it started several ways. YouTube demonetized us — I mean every time we’d put a story about COVID, masks, distancing, the laptop, boom, take it down 30-day suspension, 60 days, or just try to kill the whole account. Then all of a sudden, letters came out. I think about 21′ or 22′,” Ball stated.
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Ep. 100 Democrats in Congress are working to shut down a TV network that criticized them. That’s illegal but it’s happening. pic.twitter.com/QgEC8TllgJ
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 1, 2024
“There was a letter from four Democrat senators and two California Congress folks, Democrats, who sent letters to not only all of the satellite and cable carriers but also to advertisers,” Ball continued.
“They told them to get rid of — and your old network was named — Fox, NewsMax and OAN. Now who’s the smallest on that totem pole? We are. So they came after us. They scared away advertisers, they got us kicked off multiple carriers — Frontier, Verizon, DirectTV, everything because the Democrats sent these letters.”
“What do you mean? So sitting members of Congress tried to get a news channel kicked off the air and bankrupted but isn’t that, I mean, call me naive. In the country I grew up in that was just absolutely not allowed. You weren’t allowed to do that,” Carlson responded.
“We’re not state-run TV, right? We’re not supposed to be. I mean, when I got into —” Ball stated.
“Well it’s against the law to do that,” Carlson jumped in.
“Well, but does this regime care? Look what the Biden regime has been doing to this country. Look at the border,” Ball stated.
