Former President Barack Obama is accusing the Trump administration of using federal threats to pressure the media following ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
On Wednesday, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live was being pulled from the air indefinitely after the titular host made comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
In his opening monologue, Kimmel said that “the MAGA gang” was trying to characterize Kirk’s shooter as someone who is not right-wing so they can “score political points from it.”
These comments eventually led to ABC suspending the show, just hours after Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr discussed the FCC taking action against ABC during a guest appearance on “The Benny Johnson Show.”
In the wake of Kimmel’s show suspension, Obama critici