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Longtime reporter Bill Carter claimed President Donald Trump was “personally involved” in having Stephen Colbert’s show canceled<\/a> based on Trump’s response to the series finale.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not a good development for the country, obviously,” Carter said on MS Now’s “The Weekend” on Saturday. “Certainly the idea that he throws a man in the dumpster at the end of it indicates that he was personally involved.”<\/p>\n

Carter was referring to an AI-generated video posted on Trump’s official X account<\/a> which featured Trump grabbing Colbert while on his show and throwing him into a large dumpster, dancing to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” after the act.<\/p>\n

COLBERT LASHES OUT AT CBS, SAYS CANCELLATION \u2018REINFORCED A NARRATIVE\u2019 OF \u2018KNEE BENDING\u2019 TO TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Carter, who wrote the book “The Late Shift” based on former “Late Show” host David Letterman’s feud with “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, was among several commentators<\/a> who believed Trump’s ongoing feud with Colbert was a factor in the show’s end.<\/p>\n

“The government was pushing to get rid of this man because he was a critic. And, you know, that is so alien to our values that I think most Americans \u2014 even people who are kind of neutral about it, maybe not his strong supporters \u2014 know this is not something we do. We don\u2019t do that. We don\u2019t shut people up because they criticize us. And I think everybody who has a sense of that realizes this was a bad situation that we are going to have to deal with on an ongoing basis,” Carter said.<\/p>\n

TRUMP CELEBRATES STEPHEN COLBERT LEAVING LATE-NIGHT WITH BLISTERING EARLY-MORNING TRUTH SOCIAL POST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He went on to accuse CBS of capitulating to the Trump administration, claiming that most people no longer believe that the network’s decision to cancel the show was based on “financial purposes.”<\/p>\n

“I think CBS, when they capitulated in the lawsuit that Trump filed against \u201860 Minutes,\u2019 was sending a signal that they\u2019re not going to be the independent journalism outfit that they should be. And not just giving up Colbert, but wiping out the time period, they basically said, we\u2019re not even the same business anymore. We\u2019re backing away. We\u2019re giving up on this because maybe it would be too hard to hire somebody who wasn\u2019t going to make jokes about the president,” Carter said.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS ROASTED FOR THANKING STEPHEN COLBERT ONE DAY AFTER HIS LATE-NIGHT ERA CAME TO A CLOSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” aired its final episode on May 21. CBS announced the show’s cancellation last summer citing financial issues, a claim Colbert frequently denied. However, it was reported at the time that “The Late Show” was losing the network a whopping $40 million<\/u><\/a> per year.<\/p>\n

Colbert frequently targeted Trump<\/a> in the final years of his show. A study from the Media Research Center found that Colbert made 3,639 jokes about President Donald Trump from Jan. 3, 2023, to his show’s end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-personally-involved-canceling-stephen-colbert-longtime-late-night-reporter-claims <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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