by the ABC channel due to his comments on the murder of activist Ultra Charlie Kirk. Now the White House has been spokenwhich has denied this Saturday to put pressure to get the program suspended.
“The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and cancel his program was taken by ABC executives, as reported, and I can assure you that it was not a decision of the White House. The US president (Donald Trump) did not exert any pressure“The White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said in an interview with the Fox News.
Leavitt has affirmed that she was with Trump when the news was known during the United Kingdom’s state visit to the United Kingdom this week and He affirmed that it was herself who informed her about what happened“since he did not know what was happening.”
“The Maga gang desperately tried to call this boy (Tyler Robinson) who murdered Charlie Kirk of anything but one of them and doing everything possible to get political revenue,” Kimmel said Monday night. After this, the Kimmel program, one of the most popular night television in the country, was suspended indefinitely on Wednesday After the reaction of many conservatives to these comments.
Hours before the suspension, the president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, suggested that the government could take measures against the ABC subsidiaries that transmitted the program.
“It was an ABC decision, because Jimmy Kimmel deliberately lied to his audience in his program about the death of a highly respected man, at a time when our country was mourning,” Leavitt said now. “While the president agreed with this decision, we had nothing to do. It was an ABC decision, and without a doubt, it was correct,” he concluded.
Some Republicans have chosen to express concern about the way in which those who are not respecting the White House narrative about Charlie Kirk are being censored. This is the case of the Republican Senator by Texas Ted Cruz, who this Friday described the actions of Car as “dangerous such as Hell” and warned that a preceding worrying precedent could sit, leaving vulnerable conservatives under a future Democratic administration.
