FCC Chairman Brendan Carr continued to insist that his recent comments about Jimmy Kimmel were not a threat, even though they were widely seen that way by Democrats and some Republicans.

At his first FCC commission meeting since Kimmel’s late night show was pulled, and later reinstated, by ABC , Carr claimed that his remarks were being mischaracterized by Democrats and the media.

“There was no threat made or suggested that if Jimmy Kimmel didn’t get fired, that someone was going to lose their license,” Carr told reporters on Tuesday. “I’ve seen that there’s a lot of Democrats that are writing letters saying that is what happened, ansd it simply didn’t.”

On his late-night show earlier this month, Kimmel, in his monologue, said, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA

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