The top Democrats in Congress are warning that an essential American right — the freedom of speech — is in jeopardy following ABC’s indefinite suspension of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for the resignation of the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

“No president — Democrat, Republican — has the right to turn the federal government into an instrument of political revenge. That is what they're doing,” Schumer said at a Thursday press conference. “That's what autocrats do. It's the kind of thing that Xi [Jinping] would do, that [Vladimir] Putin would do, and Trump is doing it. It's disgraceful.

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