Vice President JD Vance speaks at ConcordPadgett Regional Airport in Concord, North Carolina, on September 24, 2025. Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Images

Vice President JD Vance tried Wednesday to rewrite the history of what happened before ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel last week, saying a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission merely made “a joke on social media” on the subject of Kimmel.

In reality, the chair of the FCC, Brendan Carr , put entirely serious pressure on ABC in an interview released hours before the suspension was announced. Carr threatened ABC and its local affiliates with potential consequences from the federal broadcasting regulator, including the potential loss of affiliates’ broadcast licenses, if ABC or its parent company Disney did not tak

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