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After information broke that late-night speak present host Jimmy Kimmel was canceled by Disney over his feedback about Charlie Kirk, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer took to social media to query the motivations behind the abrupt cancellation.
Schumer questioned in a Thursday afternoon submit on X whether or not “Epstein” was “the actual motive” Kimmel was forcibly scrubbed from the airwaves. “IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?!” Schumer requested within the submit, which additionally included a screenshot of a New York Instances article about how all the favored late-night hosts, together with Kimmel, have used the newly launched Epstein paperwork to roast the president over his alleged affiliation with the disgraced financier.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Schumer’s representatives for extra particulars on what Schumer was making an attempt to indicate, however didn’t obtain a response in time for publication.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer has raised the likelihood that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night present was canceled as a result of his statements about Jeffrey Epstein (proper). (Getty Photographs)
Nexstar Media Group, which owns tons of of tv stations, introduced on Wednesday that it could be pulling Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” speak present from its ABC associates “for the foreseeable future” and would exchange it with different programming over his feedback about alleged Charlie Kirk murderer Tyler Robinson.
“Mr. Kimmel’s feedback in regards to the dying of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a crucial time in our nationwide political discourse, and we don’t consider they mirror the spectrum of opinions, views or values of the native communities during which we’re situated,” Nexstar’s broadcasting chief, Andrew Alford, stated in a press launch. “Persevering with to provide Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform within the communities we serve is solely not within the public curiosity on the present time, and we’ve made the tough resolution to preempt his present in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we transfer towards the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”
Trump spoke in regards to the cancellation Thursday whereas he was in the UK, telling reporters that Kimmel “was fired” as a result of he had unhealthy rankings.
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President Donald Trump was a visitor on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell” on Dec. 16, 2015. (Randy Holmes/Disney Normal Leisure Content material through Getty Photographs)
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired ‘trigger he had unhealthy rankings greater than the rest and he stated a horrible factor about a fantastic gentleman generally known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is just not a gifted particular person, he had very unhealthy rankings and so they shoulda fired him a very long time in the past,” Trump stated throughout a Thursday press convention alongside United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer in England. “He was fired for lack of expertise,” Trump added.
In the meantime, in a social media submit on his platform, Fact Social, on Wednesday night time, Trump referred to as the cancellation “nice information for America.”
The Kirk feedback in query reportedly stem from a Monday airing of Kimmel’s present, throughout which he accused conservatives of reaching “new lows” of their efforts to attempt to pin Kirk’s murderer as related to some type of left-wing ideology.
Jimmy Kimmel’s standard late-night present was canceled following feedback he made in regards to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (proper). (David Russell/Disney through Getty Photographs; AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
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“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from one in all them and doing the whole lot they will to attain political factors from it,” Kimmel stated.
Following information of the cancellation, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr applauded native tv stations for “standing as much as serve the pursuits of their neighborhood.”
Fox Information Digital’s Joseph Wulfsohn and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
