“Former President Donald Trump issued an official statement on Tuesday evening in which he both denied the substance of a new Daily Beast report about his attempts to get his Justice Department to shut down Saturday Night Live and then confirmed that he believes the show was engaging in ‘illegal’ activity by making fun of him,” the Daily Beast reports.
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