"On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel commented that American politics had "hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." Kimmel seemed to imply that the man accused of killing the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a Donald Trump-supporting conservative. This was at best an unconfirmed rumor at the time."
"The Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, went on a conservative podcast and threatened Disney, which owns ABC, saying, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." In 2023 Carr posted on X that "censorship is the authoritarian's dream.""
Jimmy Kimmel inaccurately suggested that the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk was a Donald Trump-supporting conservative and that MAGA supporters sought political advantage. Kimmel failed to correct the record or apologize despite a large television audience. The Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr publicly pressured Disney/ABC, warning of regulatory action and framing corporate consequences if Kimmel was not addressed. Carr's prior 2023 post that "censorship is the authoritarian's dream" now reads like intent. Charlie Kirk's death is condemned as political murder. The use of Kirk's death to justify censorship is portrayed as cynical and damaging to American rights and freedoms.
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