Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has had his share of battles with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the years, but on Monday he said Cruz “got it right” when the Texas senator said last week that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr’s pressure on ABC to suspend late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was “dangerous as hell” and something out of a mob movie.

“Well, my colleague, Ted Cruz, said it looked just like Goodfellas. As a First Amendment guy, myself, I think he’s probably got it right,” McConnell wrote on the social media platform X above an article highlighting Cruz’s comparison of Carr’s pressure on ABC to a scene from the classic mafia movie directed by Martin Scorsese.

“You don’t have to like what somebody says on TV to agree that the government........

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