O’Reilly: Kimmel ‘shouldn’t be on the air’ 

Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly is calling for late night host Jimmy Kimmel to be taken off the air for a joke he made days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents Association dinner over the weekend.

“He shouldn’t be on the air, of course,” the conservative commentator told NewsNation on Monday. “He’s not a comedian. He’s not a satirist. He’s there to hate President Trump.”

During a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week, the comedian quipped that first lady Melania Trump was an “expectant widow.” 

The comment was aired two days before a man fired his gun the Washington Hilton just steps away from the stairs leading to the ballroom where the dinner was taking place. Trump, the first lady and senior administration officials were safely evacuated.

The suspect, Cole Allen, was quickly taken down and later charged with attempting an assassination of the president and multiple firearms offenses.

Following the incident on Saturday evening, Melania Trump condemned the joke,........

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