FCC Chair Carr: Kimmel ‘Appeared to Directly Mislead’ Viewers

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Jimmy Kimmel appeared to “directly mislead” Americans about facts regarding conservative leader Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Carr spoke about Kimmel while being interviewed on CNBC Thursday, one day after ABC suspended the late-night host’s show indefinitely following comments he made about the Turning Point CEO’s murder last week.

In his monologue on Tuesday, Kimmel said that “we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

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