"The right and the left are always sort of misinterpreting things. He was inaccurate about something," Kimmel's former 'Man Show' co-host said. "It wasn’t like he was necessarily attacking Charlie Kirk.

On Wednesday, ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after two prominent affiliate owners vowed to preempt airings of the program following comments Kimmel made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

ABC's daytime talk show, regularly critical of Trump, has been conspicuously silent in the wake of the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show and as it faces threats from the FCC chairman.

The conservative senator warned that letting the government threaten to censor voices it doesn’t like could come back to hurt the political right if Democrats return to power.

Jimmy Kimmel 's show was pulled off the air indefinitely on Wednesday, Sept. 17, a spokesperson for ABC confirmed to PEOPLE, after the host's comments about the death of Charlie Kirk. The following day, The View aired as normal, and the news was not addressed.

The comments came after ABC's suspension of Kimmel and a social media post Trump made urging NBC to fire Fallon.

ABC10, the affiliate in Sacramento, was struck by gunfire on Friday, a day after a protest over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. No one was hurt.

Jimmy Kimmel has become a cultural fixture over two decades in late-night television, blending humor with political satire.