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Jimmy Kimmel It is another night program presenter to be removed from the air of a major broadcaster after comments on the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirkamid government pressure Donald Trump.

“THE Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be suspended indefinitely, ”said a spokesman for ABC magazine Rolling Stone On Wednesday, without specifying the reasons for the decision.

The news came shortly after Nexstar remove the program from its broadcasters in the United States.

“The own and partners of the Nexstar affiliated with ABC Television Network will suspend the Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely, starting with the program tonight, ”announced the company. Nexstar vehemently repudiate recent comments from the Mr. Kimmel about the death of Charlie Kirk and will replace the program with other attractions in its markets affiliated with the ABC“.

Andrew AlfordPresident of the Broadcasting Division of Nexstarclassified the statements of Kimmel as “offensive and inadequate in such a delicate moment of our national political debate.”

“Continue offering a transmission platform to Mr. Kimmel in the communities we serve simply does not meet the public interest at this time, ”he said Alfordadding: “We have made the difficult decision to suspend your program in the hope that the spirits will calm down and we can resume a respectful and constructive dialogue.”

In the monologue of Monday, Kimmel had criticized conservatives for trying to “take advantage” of the murder of Kirk. According to the comedian, they spent the weekend generically blaming the left – and specifically trans – by shooting, even before any information about the shooter’s motivations surfaced.

“We arrived at new levels of low -weekend over the weekend, with the Widen striving desperately to characterize the young man who killed Charlie Kirk like anything, except one of yours, doing everything to turn it into a political stage, ”he said Kimmel on your program.

THE FOX NEWS interpreted these statements as if Kimmel had suggested that the “shooter Kirk was part of the class Widen“Although that’s not exactly what he meant.

On the morning of Wednesday, Brendan Carrpresident of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated by Trumpmade a public appeal for licensed broadcasters to stop showing the Kimmel.

“I think it is past time for these licensed broadcasters to confront Comcast and the Disney and say, ‘Look, let’s suspend the display of the Kimmel until you resolve this situation, because we, as a licensed broadcaster, are at risk of fines or even loss of license for FCC if we continue to transmit content that configures systematic distortion of information, ”he said Carrier During an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.

“We can solve this through the easy way or the difficult,” he threatened Carrier. “These companies can find ways to change posture and take action on the Kimmelor FCC It will have a lot of work ahead. ”

The decision of Nexstar and from ABC silence Kimmel by relatively harmless comments reveals how large corporations and media companies are terrified of the second term of office Trump. The president and his allies have made it clear that they will not hesitate to use all the power of the federal government against TV networks and their controllers, especially when presenters or comedians say something that displeases Trump.

In the hours before the decision to take Kimmel air, two sources close to the case report that executives of the ABCof your controller Disney and the affiliates gathered on emergency to try to minimize the damage. Several executives believed that Kimmel had not crossed any red line, according to these sources, but the threat of retaliation of the government Trump He hovered in the air.

“They were panicked all day,” says an employee of the ABC the Rolling Stone.

Even before winning the 2024 elections, Trump and their main advisors had already made plans to use FCC and other powerful federal agencies to punish comedians of night programs that the president has had for years.

At the end of last year, when Trump prepared to resume the presidency, the ABC News He agreed to pay $ 15 million to end a lawsuit filed by him. The lawsuit, seen by many as without a great chance of success, questioned anchor statements George Stephanopoulos on Trump have been considered guilty of “rape”. In truth, Trump was considered guilty of “sexual abuse.”

To end the process, the ABC News agreed to allocate millions of dollars to the founding of the Presidential Library of Trump. The measure was already concerned with company employees at the time and signaled a much greater trend: large corporations aligning itself to solve processes Trump through millionaire payments at the bottom of your library.

The requirement of Carrier so that licensed broadcasters refuse to transmit the Kimmel (and the rapid compliance with Nexstar) It happens precisely when the company seeks approval of the FCC for a corporate fusion.

THE Nexstar is already the largest owner of US TV stations, and its merger of $ 6.2 billion with the Tegna would make her even bigger.

Last week, Kimmelknown government critic Trumphad asked for his hearing to react with empathy after the death of Kirk. “Instead of being pointing fingers angry, can we at least for a day agree that it is terrible and monstrous shooting another human being?” He wrote in Instagram on September 10th. “In the name of my family, we send love to Kirk and to all children, parents and innocents who are victims of this meaningless armed violence. ”