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Cruz says FCC chair’s threats over Kimmel ‘right out of Goodfellas,’ ‘dangerous as hell’

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20.09.2025

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) said he’s glad late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel is off the air indefinitely, but he warned that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr’s threat to take action against ABC sounded like something “right out of Goodfellas,” the classic mob movie, and “dangerous as hell.”

“Jimmy Kimmel has mocked me so many times I cannot count. The corporate media, they’re dishonest, they are liars. I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired,” Cruz said on his podcast “Verdict.”

But he warned that Carr’s statement that the FCC could look at “remedies” to pursue if ABC didn’t take action in response to Kimmel’s implication that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer was a member of the “MAGA gang” was a bad idea.

“No, no, no, no,........

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