Chris Hayes says that Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is part of Trump’s plan to remove dissent and “consolidate power”
Chris Hayes had a dark evaluation of the national situation after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel “indefinitely” in response to the conservative indignation of the comments he made on the man who murdered Charlie Kirk.
Donald Trump, with the help of rich oligarchs, repeats the stages made in other authoritarian countries “to establish essentially all the country’s media in a friendly propaganda arm,” said Hayes.
“When Stephen Colbert announced that his late evening show was canceled in July, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had a frightening reaction,” said Hayes. He then played a singing clip singing on the decision and promising that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are probably the next one.
Hayes then recapitulated the situation of viewers, explaining how during his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said that Tyler Robinson, the 22 -year -old man who killed Kirk a week ago, was used to stir up anger. But, saying, he said that Robinson was a supporter of Maga.
Kimmel’s hypothesis that Robinson was part of political law was based on the indications for all the available evidence that was public at the time. But on Tuesday, more details were made public which clearly establishes that Robinson was not motivated by right policy, held what could be left political beliefs and seems to have been motivated by personal concerns. Many questions remain unanswered, however.
But this context was widely ignored by criticism, including the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, who, while appearing on a conservative podcast, threatened the parent company of ABC Disney and asked Kimmel to be suspended or dismissed. A few hours later, Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the country’s largest network affiliation owners, both said they would stop “Kimmel”. Which led ABC to hang Kimmel.
“If it was the whole story – he said something, it was not correct, the affiliates pushed back – well, then it would be a story. But that’s not this whole story. Here, “we can do it the simplest way or the hard way,” said Hayes.
“This is only the last chapter of Donald Trump’s current campaign to repress freedom of expression, dominate the media and make the first amendment devoid of meaning essentially, an extreme campaign that was on belonging last week,” said Hayes. “I mean, yesterday, you had the general sub-procurer of these United States, the number two … and the former criminal lawyer for the president, suggesting to use anti-racket criminal laws, the kind of thing used for gangsters, Rico statutes, to continue and continue the demonstrators who decrease Donald Trump in a restaurant.”
Hayes also noted that the Trump administration intends to persecute groups affiliated with democrats, which, according to him, was “part of a broader and more dangerous effort” which “follows a game book that we have successfully experienced in recent years by strong authoritarian men in places like Hungary and Turkey and Russia”.
“Because in these places, they did not just criminalize the speech they did not like, although some of them did,” said Hayes. “Above all, they made practically impossible see and hear Examples of this speech, taking de facto controlling the media landscape. “He then noted how it happened in Hungary, where Victor Orban” used media buyouts by oligarchs connected to the government to build a real media empire subject to the orders of his party “.
Hayes noted how the situation is similar in Türkiye. “And of course, there is Russia, where the friendly pligarchs with President Vladimir Putin control a large part of the media, and the restrictions in war times have closed the rest.”
“In each of these three countries, they have not simply arrested dissenting demonstrators or journalists, nor presented themselves at the door of magazines. They used the government’s power, and sometimes by legal mechanisms, to essentially establish all the country’s media in a friendly propaganda arm of the regime,” continued Hayes. “So, taking into account this context, I want you to look around at the moment and see what was going on here just before our eyes.”
Hayes then explained a series of recent media movements, leading to this assessment of the situation: if, said Hayes, all the recently reported media transactions are approved: “This would mean that the Murdoch family controlling Fox News, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news [Wall Street] Journal, New York Post, its other properties. Twitter, Tiktok, CBS, CNN and more, belonging to Elon Musk and the Ellison family. The Washington Post, belonging to Jeff Bezos. »»
“The Trump administration threatens to bring down the government of freedom of expression and to use it against dissent. It also facilitates the sale of some of our greatest private media to the Trump allies, and is a very obvious attempt to consolidate power over freedom of expression,” he added. Look at the entire segment below:
