Glenn Beck: SiriusXM has suspended conservative host's radio programme

The announcement came after a guest was accused of 'advocating harm against' Donald Trump

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Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has been suspended from SiriusXM for the remainder of the week after a guest was accused of inciting an assassination attempt of Donald Trump if he is elected president.

In conversation with Beck, conservative commentator and fiction author Brad Thor said that it would be unlikely that Congress would remove Mr Trump from office; he suggested that there is “no legal means available” to do so.

“With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as President?” Mr Thor asked.

“If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office? And I don’t think there is a legal means available,” he continued. “I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office because you won’t be able to do it through Congress.”

Beck, 52, a former Fox News pundit, agreed with Mr Thor, pivoting to focus on the state of the US economy.

In a Tuesday announcement, SiriusXM said they will not air Beck’s program on their Patriot Channel and will determine the show’s future with the company.

“SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs,” the statement said. “However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone.”

Last week, Beck responded to accusations by media organisations, like Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator.

“So evil. That is NOT what he meant, nor is it what we thought. How evil do you have to be to think this?,” Beck said in a statement on Facebook.

Beck’s co-host Brad Gray also clarified Mr Thor’s comments in a Facebook statement.

“As you know if you were listening this morning, Brad was discussing the possibility that if Trump ever got completely out-of-control as President, there would be no way the Republican Congress would ever impeach him,” he wrote. “So, even if it were necessary, patriots have no way to get him out of office.

“Nobody...NOBODY stated or implied any harm coming to Trump, that's not something we joke about.”

Neither Beck nor producers of his radio show responded to requests for comment.

Glenn Beck is one of the more outspoken conservative critics of Donald Trump. As such, he campaigned for Texas Sen Ted Cruz - whom he endorsed in January.

“We need a new George Washington. Today's Washington will not be found in the garish light of gold but rather in the bold service of a man who stands tirelessly for what he deeply believes,” Beck said of Mr Cruz at a rally in Iowa, a week before the caucuses. “That is why I'm endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz as the next President of the United States of America.”

Before the endorsement, Beck said the US under a Trump presidency would be a “snowball to hell”.