Schumer wonders if Epstein had something to do with the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel

After the news announced that the end-of-evening talk show Jimmy Kimmel was canceled by Disney for his comments on Charlie Kirk, the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, went to social networks to question the motivations behind the steep cancellation.

Schumer wondered in a Thursday afternoon job On X, if “Epstein” was “the real reason”, Kimmel was forcibly rubbed by the waves. “Is Epstein the real reason for which Trump had Kimmel canceled?!” Schumer asked in the post, which also included a screenshot of a New York Times article on how all popular end of evening hosts, including Kimmel, used the newly published Epstein documents to roast the President about his alleged association with the financier in disgrace.

Fox News Digital contacted Schumer’s representatives for more details on what Schumer tried to involve, but did not receive a response in time for the publication.

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Senator Chuck Schumer raised the possibility that Jimmy Kimmel’s late evening show was canceled due to his statements on Jeffrey Epstein (right). (Getty Images)

Nexstar Media Group, which has hundreds of television stations, announced on Wednesday that it would draw “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” From Kimmel. Talk show of its ABC affiliates “in the foreseeable future” and would replace it with other programs on its comments on the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson.

“Mr. Kimmel’s comments on Mr. Kirk ‘death are offensive and insensitive to a critical moment in our national political discourse, and we do not think that they reflect the spectrum of opinions, opinions or values ​​of local communities in which we are located,” said the head of the NEXSTAR radio, Andrew Alford, in a press release. “Continue to give Mr. Kimmel a dissemination platform in the communities that we serve is simply not in the public interest at the moment, and we have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his program in order to let the fresher heads prevail while we are heading towards the recovery of a respect and constructive dialogue.”

Trump spoke of cancellation on Thursday when he was in the United Kingdom, telling journalists that Kimmel “was dismissed” because he had bad grades.

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President Donald Trump was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on December 16, 2015. (Randy Holmes / Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

“Jimmy Kimmel was dismissed because he had more bad grades than anything else and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person, he had very bad grades and they had to fire him long ago” “he was dismissed for lack of talent.”

Meanwhile, in a publication on social networks on his platform, Truth Social, Wednesday evening, Trump described the cancellation of “big news for America”.

Kirk’s comments in question would come from a Monday broadcast by Kimmel’s show, during which he accused the Conservatives of reaching “new stockings” in their efforts to try to pin the Kirk assassin as linked to a form of left ideology.

Jimmy Kimmel’s popular late evening show was canceled following comments he made on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (right). (David Russell / Disney via Getty Images; APO photo / Alex Brandon)

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“We have struck new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points,” said Kimmel.

Following the news of the cancellation, the federal communications commissioner Brendan Carr applauded local television stations to “get up to serve the interests of their community”.

Joseph Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.