Former Vice President Kamala Harris He criticized the Trump administration about his “assault on freedom of expression”, following Jimmy Kimmels suspension of alphabet About his comments on the murder of Charlie Kirk.
“What we are witnessing is an absolute abuse of power,” Harris wrote in X, not to mention Kimmel Direct. “This administration is attacking critics and the use of fear as a weapon to silence anyone who speaks. Media corporations, from television networks to newbies, are capitulators of these threats.”
She added: “We cannot dare to be silent or complacent in the face of this frontal assault on freedom of expression. We, people, deserve better.”
Harris joins a long list of politicians and celebrities who raise Conerns about the threat of freedom of expression after ABC’s decision “Indefinitely” pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid Administration pressure.
Governor of California Gavin Newsom saying The Republican Party “does not believe in freedom of expression”, and adds: “These arcidencies. It is coordinated. And it is dangerous … they are censoring you in real time.”
In his own publication to X, Barack Obama written“After years of complaining about Cancel Culture, the current administration has led it to a new and dangerous level threatening to routinely threatening regulatory action against media companions unless they smell or shoot the reporters and commentators who reveal it.”
An ABC spokesman confirmed Wednesday that Kimmel It would be retired shortly after Nexstar, the owner of the largest television station, kicked his night program of his US stations.
Duration The monologue of Kimmel Monday, the comedian criticized the rightists for trying to “score political points” of Kirk’s murder.
“We arrived at some new minimums on the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as more than one of them and doing everything possible to score political points from the show.
The president of the Federal Commission of Communications of President Donald Trump, Brendan Carr, publicly asked the licensed broadcasters to stop transmitting the Kimmel program the next day. “We can do this in the easy or difficult way,” Carr said previously talking to the conservative Podcaster Benny Johnson. “These companies can find ways to change the behavior and take measures, frankly, in Kimmel or there will be an additional job for the FCC ahead.”