2025 Mayor's Race EXCLUSIVE Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show B

Good to see. I do not think any Democrat should have anything
to do with ABC IMHO


2025 Mayor’s Race
EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show

https://www.amny.com/news/mamdani-pull-abc-town-hall-jimmy-kimmel-suspension/

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on September 22, 2025

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week, amNewYork has learned.

Mamdani, his campaign exclusively told amNewYork ahead of the announcement, is making the move in defense of freedom of speech rights, which he says are under attack by President Trump. He is bowing out of the ABC event specifically because the network shelved Kimmel’s show following threats from the Federal Communications Commission over comments the comedian made last week about the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk.


“We simply cannot accept any capitulation to Donald Trump’s attacks on our fundamental freedoms,” Mamdani said. “Now is the time for leadership that fights back with action, and collectively, we must use every tool at our disposal to send a message to Washington and corporate powers alike: our freedom to speech is not a bargaining chip.”

Mamdani, a democratic socialist Assembly member, will reveal the news during a 10:45 a.m. Monday news conference at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island. According to the campaign, the lawmaker picked the location because it honors President Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he listed freedom of speech as one of the fundamental “Four Freedoms” of American democracy..................