FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel – who ABC has yanked off the air – “appeared to directly mislead” the public by insinuating that Charlie Kirk’s killer was a MAGA conservative.

ABC said Wednesday that the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would be pulled off the air “indefinitely” as a result of his comments linking Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, to President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.

“The issue that arose here, where lots and lots of people were upset, was not a joke,” Carr told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday. 3

“It was not making fun,” Carr added in a response to backlash from some viewers arguing that Kimmel was being muzzled for his long history of anti-Trump jokes.

Carr argued that networks with broadcast licen

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