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From: Sam	9/30/2025 7:36:33 AM
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Fact check: Vance, rewriting last week’s history, claims FCC chair just made a ‘joke’ about Kimmel Daniel Dale September 25, 2025 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 take action against Kimmel over controversial comments he made about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Vance’s spokespeople did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment about his claim. What Vance claimed Vancewas asked by CNN’s Kit Maher on Wednesday how he squares his belief in free speech with the FCC’s pressure related to Kimmel. continues at cnn.com

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