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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,081 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:05 PM Thursday

Joe Trippi - Trump Tried to Silence Kimmel. He Gave him a Megaphone Instead.

By trying to silence Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump and his ally, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, did exactly the opposite of what they intended: They amplified him.

When they launched their campaign to force ABC to take Kimmel off the air for daring to speak freely, they weren’t just targeting a comedian — they were targeting the First Amendment.

And America noticed.

What Trump and Carr miscalculated — and miscalculated spectacularly — was the power of that moment. They sought to crush a voice. Instead, they created a megaphone.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-tried-to-silence-kimmel-he

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Talk about backfiring spectacularly, MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #1

MarineCombatEngineer

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1. Talk about backfiring spectacularly,

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:17 PM

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this was it, Been A Dick Donald and his criminal cohort, FCC Chair Carr, fully expected Jimmy Kimmel to remain off the air and that they could keep on threatening "enemies" without consequences, well, they thought wrong and I get the sense that this one incident has had a tremendous effect on our 1A right.

Great job Kimmel and all who came to his defense, from all across the political spectrum.

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