Ty Cobb, who once served as a lawyer to President Trump during his first term, offered stark criticism of the administration’s involvement in the suspension by ABC of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Cobb said the pressure the Federal Communications Commission and the Trump administration put on ABC was comparable to what happens in Russia or what happened in Nazi Germany, which also banned comedians from the airwaves.

“It’s evocative of what we’ve seen throughout history. In 1939, Dr. Goebbels, at Hitler’s instruction, removed five comedians, or witticists as they were called at the time, from the airways in Germany and for criticizing or making fun of........

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