Costas blasts Trump, Redstone
Andrew Kirell writes: "The free press is under attack," Bob Costas said last night while accepting a lifetime achievement Mirror Award. "Democracy as we know it is under attack."
The sportscaster called out ABC News for settling Trump's lawsuit against George Stephanopoulos — a "$15 million ransom," he called it — and blasted Shari Redstone for "besmirch[ing] and undercut[ting] the gold standard in our lifetime of broadcast journalism, '60 Minutes.'"
Costas also targeted Trump ("has absolutely no regard and, in fact, has contempt for basic American principles and basic common decency") and responded to fans who've told him they dislike him since he began talking politics: "You know what, if that's what you think and that's how you think and you think it in defense of that guy, I wear that as a badge of honor."
 
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