Powerful Republican Ted Cruz breaks ranks with Donald Trump over TV crackdown

“I think it’s really illegal, Tr Trump, a former successful TV presenter, said,” I think it’s really illegal, “Trump said. “This is no longer free to talk … This is just cheating and cheating.”

FCC President Brendan Carr promised to continue his work in the face of his calls to resign.Credit: Bloomberg

Disney’s television network ABC, Carr’s investigations against licensed publishers who published Kimmel’i threatened and regulatory actions after Jimmy Kimmel’s late at night suspended Talk Show. The owners of dozens of local TV station affiliated to ABC said they will no longer carry the show.

Trump, who appointed Carr, cheered the decision.

The suspension watched the opening monologue on Kimmel’s show on Monday, where the President of the President and the political ally, the right -wing activist Charlie Kirk discussed the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Conservative activists were angry with Kimmel’s assassination of the assassination of “political points” and the killer’s suggestions that he could be conservative. Kimmel also joked how Trump reacted to killing.

The well -known democrats and civil rights groups condemned the pressure of the Trump administration to punish Kimmel and the president of the president.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz said that Carr's threat to good publishers or the threat of withdrawing his licenses through the content of his performances is dangerous. — Republican Senator Ted Cruz said that Carr’s threat to good publishers or the threat of withdrawing his licenses through the content of his performances is dangerous.Credit: AP

Cruz, the President of the Senate Trade Surveys Committee, participated in the criticism of Podcast’s Friday section and said that Carr’s comments were “as dangerous as Hell”.

Senator, a former constitutional lawyer, adopted a large mafia accent to quote Carr’s comments about publishers this week: iz We can easily do this or we can do it in a hard way. ”

The Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer called on Cruz to resign Carr or to expel him to expel him.

Schumer called Carr as one of the biggest threats to America’s free conversation ”. On Friday, some democratic deputies in the House of Representatives asked FCC’s general inspector to investigate Carr’s actions and comments.

Carr and FCC did not respond to comments, but Carr said that during the week he did not go anywhere, and promised to seize media companies and defend the “public interest”.

Trump spoke several times to appreciate the suspension of Kimmel during a state visit to England, and condemned him for saying that he could not forget the Los Angeles comedy and said, “A terrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk”.

In the monologue of Monday, Kimmel, who frequently lamps Trump, mocked the president for transforming a question about his grief into a cheerful promotion for the White House Ballroom, where he planned a question about his grief.

Kimmel said, “An adult does not upset the murder of someone he calls a friend,” Kimmel said. “A four -year -old child mourns the aquarium fish in this way.”

Since Kimmel has been suspended, he has not made an open comment and the future of his show is unclear.

Cruz said in his podcast that he was mocked by Kimmel in the air in the air and hated Kimmel’s comments about Kirk.

He said Kimmel’s show was excited about the darkness, but it was caused by government pressure.

“We shouldn’t threaten the power of the government to force him into the air, Cruz said Cruz.

“Currently, it may feel good to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but we will regret it when every conservative in America is used to silence.”

Meanwhile, film and TV writers organized a free speech show to protest against Kimmel’s suspension of Kimmel in New York on Friday and the efforts of Trump to punish publishers who were sick of him.

Some of the dozens of ABC employed, Disney’s trade unions, the workers’ trade unions, at a rally organized by American writer Guild, walked on the sidewalk outside the skyscraper where he had offices to “protect free conversation”.

At a rally organized by a guild in Los Angeles on Thursday, about 150 demonstrators protested outside Hollywood studio Jimmy Kimmel live! Saved, knee bending to Trump ”,“ Resistance to fascism ”and“ Mouse basket ”signs are swinging.