Trump says TV networks “against” should lose the license after Kimmel’s suspension

US President Donald Trump suggested that some television networks must have “taking” licenses, as the American broadcasting organizer, in a row, supported the comment of ABC Jimmy Kimmel.

Disney -owned network announced on Wednesday evening that it was withdrawing the comedy from the air “indefinitely” amid a violent reaction about his statements about the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kerk last week.

On Monday, Kimmel suggested that the suspect was a Maga Republic, although the authorities in Utah said that the alleged militant was “taught with leftist ideology.”

It took ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! Just the air after the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) threatened the procedure on his statements.

Trump talked about the case to reporters on Air Force One while returning from a government visit to the United Kingdom.

“I have read somewhere that networks were 97 % against me, again, negative by 97 %, however they won easily and easily, all the seven swinging states (in last year’s elections),” the president said.

“They only give me bad advertising, pressure. I mean, they get a license. I think they may be removed from their license.”

In Monuhouj on Monday, Kimmel, 57, said that the “Maga Gang” was “heavily tried to describe this child who killed Charlie Kerk as anything other than one of them” and tries to “score political points from him.”

Trump also likened to the death of 31 -year -old political crop with “how four years old is saddened by a golden fish.”

After shooting, Kimmel also went on Instagram to condemn the attack and send “love” to the Kirk family.

Speaking to Fox on Thursday, the head of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, said that Kimmel’s comment was not “the last shoe to fall.”

“We will continue to hold these broadcasters accountable for the public interest,” he said.

“If the broadcasters do not like this simple solution, they can transfer their license to the Federal Communications Committee.”

The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) has organizational power on licensed local broadcasting stations, which are often subsidiaries of major networks, such as ABC, and can punish such ports for serious organizational violations.

But the agency has limited power on cable channels, such as Fox or MSNBC, and there is no salad on sound materials or most broadcast content.

Legal scientists say that the first amendment to the American constitution, which protects freedom of expression, will prevent the Federal Communications Committee from licensing legally based on political dispute.

Joe Strazolo, late at night, worked on Jimmy Kimmel Live! From 2015-21, I told the BBC in Los Angeles that there is an atmosphere of fear in the book room.

“It is heartbreaking to see their threat out of work,” he said. “I touched a base and nobody knows exactly what is happening and working on things behind the scenes.”

Kimmel’s comment on Wednesday evening was announced shortly after NexStar Media, one of the largest owners of television stations in the United States, that it will not broadcast his show “for the perspective future.”

NexStar called on Kirk’s statements “attack and sensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse.”

Car NexStar – who is currently seeking to obtain the approval of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for a 6.2 billion dollar mergers (4.5 billion pounds) with Tegna – said he hoped that other broadcasters will follow the building of the building.

Senkler, the largest ABC group in the United States, said it will broadcast a special memory program for Kerk during the original time of Kimmel on Friday.

Kirk, a high -ranking governor activist and two father, died of a single live bullet to the neck while speaking at the University of Utah in Orim on September 10.

His widow, Erika Kirk, was named on Thursday as a new president of the organization whose husband participated in its founding, Turning Point Usa.

A 22 -year -old man was accused on Tuesday of strict killing, and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.

The writers, actors, former US President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats condemned Kimmel’s comment.

Obama said the accident represents a new and dangerous level of cancellation culture.

He said on X.

Actor Ben Steller said it was “not true”, while Hakzi Jean -Smart’s star said it was “terrified of cancellation.”

“What Jimmy said was freedom of expression, not a hate speech.”

The Writers Syndicate in America and the screen group, two niqab in Hollywood workers, condemned the decision as a violation of the constitutional freedom rights.

But others argued that Kimmel’s comment was accountability, not the cancellation of culture.

“When someone says something, many people find an attack, vicious, stupid in the actual time, then this person is punished for that, he does not eliminate culture,” said Dave Portoi, who founded Barstool Sports.

“These are consequences for your actions.”

The Fox host argue late at night, Greg Guteld, that Kimmel was “deliberately and misleading”, blamed Kirk’s killing on “allies and friends” for the activist.

The British showcase, Bear Morgan, said Kimmel “is a lie about the fact that Mag Charlie Kirk” and his comments caused “understandable anger throughout America.”

“Why is it involved as a kind of martyr of freedom of expression?” He added.

But a colleagal of leadership at the Federal Communications Committee (CAR), Commissioner Anna Gomez, criticized the organizer’s position on Kimmel.

She said, “Indeed, he does not forgive political violence by a turbulent individual who should not be exploited as a justification for the broader control or control.”

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