Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-GA) campaign said that the Trump administration threatened ABC’s broadcast license, claiming that Jimmy Kimmel’s statement that the Charlie Kirk assassination may have been part of the “MAGA gang” was “political satire.”
Ossoff said in a release:
The Trump administration didn’t approve of Jimmy Kimmel’s political satire, so it threatened ABC’s broadcast license, and ABC took Kimmel off the air.
As you no doubt recognize, this is what happens in authoritarian states, where disfavored political speech is met with official punishment.
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Nick Puglia, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), said, “Jon Ossoff’s latest attempt to rage bait his far-left supporters into emptying their pockets is fear mongering about ‘authoritarian states’ and defending Jimmy Kimmel
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