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Was Epstein behind Kimmel’s axe?

Rumours have begun to swirl about the truth behind why Donald Trump was desperate to have Jimmy Kimmel’s show cancelled.

After news broke that late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was cancelled by Disney over his comments about Charlie Kirk, US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to social media to question the motivations behind the abrupt cancellation.

Schumer wondered in a Thursday afternoon post on X whether “Epstein” was “the real reason” Kimmel was forcibly scrubbed from the airwaves, reports Fox News Digital.

“IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?!” Schumer asked in the post, which also included a screenshot of a New York Times article about how all the popular late-night hosts, including Kimmel, have used the newly released Epstein documents to roast the president over his alleged association with the disgraced financier.

 

Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel

 

Nexstar Media Group, which owns hundreds of television stations, announced Wednesday that it would be pulling Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” talk show from its ABC affiliates “for the foreseeable future” and would replace it with other programming over his comments about alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson.

“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Nexstar’s broadcasting chief, Andrew Alford, said in a press release.

“Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”

Trump spoke about the cancellation Thursday while he was in the UK, telling reporters that Kimmel “was fired” because he had bad ratings.

 

Rumours are swirling that the real reason was he jokes about Trump and Epstein. Picture: Supplied.
Rumours are swirling that the real reason was he jokes about Trump and Epstein. Picture: Supplied.

“Jimmy Kimmel was fired ‘cause he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person, he had very bad ratings and they shoulda fired him a long time ago,” Trump said during a press conference Thursday alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“He was fired for lack of talent,” Trump added.

Meanwhile, in a social media post on his platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday night, Trump called the cancellation “great news for America.”

The Kirk comments in question reportedly stem from a Monday airing of Kimmel’s show, during which he accused conservatives of reaching “new lows” in their efforts to try to pin Kirk’s assassin as connected to some form of left-wing ideology.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. Following news of the cancellation, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr applauded local television stations for “standing up to serve the interests of their community.”

Fox News Digital has contacted Schumer’s representatives for comment.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.

Author: Alec Schemmel - Fox News

Source: News Corp Australia Network:

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