Craig Silverman, the host of “The Craig Silverman Show,” which aired on a conservative radio station in Denver, Colorado, says he was fired in the middle of a show. Why? According to Silverman, he was fired suddenly after he criticized Donald Trump during his Saturday morning 710 KNUS talk show. Just how suddenly? As Silverman tells it, the station’s program director, Kelly Michaels, literally came through the door and said, “You’re done,” as first reported by the Denver Post.
Here’s what reportedly happened right before that. Silverman had been playing parts of an old interview, from 2015, between himself and Roger Stone. Stone, as previously covered at Daily Kos, was convicted on Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress and faces a sentence of 20 years or more. The clip Silverman replayed involved the radio host telling Stone that he was upset by Trump’s relationship with Roy Cohn, Trump’s former attorney. After that aired, as Silverman explains it, the station suddenly cut to network news.
Silverman, who said he’d been increasingly critical of Trump lately, has felt that Democrats have made a solid case for impeachment hearings. In a recent show, a listener called in and stated that Trump hadn’t committed any impeachable offenses and thus the impeachment inquiry was unfair.
“You like Donald Trump’s policies and I like many of them, as well. Right now, we have peace and prosperity, and that’s great,” Silverman answered as reported by The Washington Post. “But the question becomes, ‘Is it okay to cheat to win?' Because the allegation is that Donald Trump is using that money and the power of the presidency to cheat to win in 2020.”
Here’s what Silverman tweeted about the reported firing:
Silverman, a former prosecutor, said he voted for Trump in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2012. As reported byThe Washington Post, Silverman calls himself an independent who possesses both liberal and conservative views. He also said he’s voted Republican more than Democrat.
“I submit that Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular in lots of America,” Silverman said, as reported by the Post, during his Nov. 2 show in reference to Trump being booed at Game 5 of the World Series in Washington, D.C. “And our country is at a crisis point. And I think a lot of people in America are coming to the realization that something is just not quite right with President Donald Trump.”
“Not quite right” puts it lightly.