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It was threats from Trump’s FCC chair, Brendan Carr, that snowballed into ABC pulling Kimmel’s show indefinitely after the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk ’s alleged killer. The move has also sparked an intense conversation about censorship.
David Letterman went to bat for Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, denouncing President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian criminal administration” for cracking down on the free speech of comedians. “This is misery,” Letterman told journalist Jeffrey Goldberg ...