Jimmy Kimmel Defamed Charlie Kirk And His Supporters. Now He’s Off The Air. Good Riddance.

Eight days after the murder of Charlie Kirk, it’s time to get specific about what actions need to be taken in order to prevent any more conservatives from being hunted in this country.

It’s true, as we discussed yesterday, that there are several indications that Charlie’s killer didn’t act alone. At the moment, the FBI says that it’s looking into additional suspects, including the people who predicted that the shooting would occur several days in advance on social media. But even if a domestic LGBT terror cell is uncovered in this case, prosecuting those responsible is necessary but not sufficient. If we want to ensure that conservatives have the right of free expression, we need to dismantle hundreds (if not thousands) of Left-wing terror networks in this country, as we’ve been saying all week.

But it’s one thing to rail against Left-wing NGOs and trans activists, over and over again, until everyone gets bored and moves on, and nothing is accomplished. To get anything done, of course, you need evidence of actual criminal activity. You need some kind of smoking gun. And despite what the attorney general might claim, “hate speech” does not qualify as criminal activity. Mocking Charlie Kirk’s death, as virtually everyone on the Left is doing, is obviously reprehensible. It’s demonic. But in most cases, it’s not illegal.

What is illegal, on the other hand, is planning, funding, organizing, and otherwise abetting riots, harassment, property destruction, economic sabotage, and so on. Those are the kind of activities that, under RICO law, are actually very easy to prosecute. If an organization exists to repeatedly engage in criminal activity like this, the whole organization can be shut down, and everyone involved can be hauled to prison. 

The president himself has invoked the RICO law recently, in public appearances, as a potential way of dismantling some of the Left’s biggest and most powerful institutions. And the other day, a researcher named Ryan Mauro, with Capital Research Center, outlined exactly what those prosecutions could look like. He provided what appears to be a smoking gun — or at least, the first of many, many smoking guns that will soon follow. This is a very important report that’s worth highlighting because it moves beyond rhetoric and gets us much closer to actual, tangible results. 

Here’s part of the report.

Since 2016, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), now run with his son Alexander, has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence. … Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism. These groups include the Center for Third World Organizing and its militant partner Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction and sabotage during the 2020 riots, and the Sunrise Movement, which endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments. … Open Society awarded $18 million to the Movement for Black Lives, a group that … instructs activists in the use of false IDs, blockades, and economic disruption.

The report adds that, according to Mauro’s investigation, “Open Society awarded at least $23 million to seven groups that engage in or materially assist violence, property destruction, economic sabotage, harassment, and other criminality that meets the FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism.”

To expound on one of these organizations. The “Ruckus Society,” as the name implies, reportedly suggests in their own training materials that they encourage certain types of illegal activities. According to InfluenceWatch, these training materials instruct members on “tactics to resist the unjust system. Some of these may be legal strategies while others may be outside of the law, such as the use of civil disobedience.”

To be clear, under federal law, nonprofits are not allowed to engage in any form of partisan political activity, much less criminal activity. So we’re potentially talking about tax crimes here, in addition to everything else. There could be layers upon layers of criminal activity going on. And it happens so often that you probably don’t even think about it, or realize the extent of the problem.

For example, you probably don’t remember this scene from San Francisco last year:

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Rioters stormed the Golden Gate Bridge. They blocked traffic, including ambulances, from going anywhere for hours. And guess what? It wasn’t a random group of Leftists who decided to do this. A woman named Ellen Caminiti served as a spokeswoman for the rioters. And her day job, as it turns out, is serving as communications director at a nonprofit called the “National Center for Lesbian Rights.” So she takes tax-exempt money from the lesbian nonprofit, then stages a criminal takeover of a major bridge during work hours. Of course, the lesbian nonprofit had no problem with this, because this is the entire purpose of Left-wing nonprofits. For the most part, they’re engineered to organize and fund lawlessness under the cover of law.

Multiply this incident by about a million, and you begin to get a sense of the scale of the problem. There is a vast network of well-funded Left-wing NGOs that, if you look below the surface and get past their “mission statement”, are intent on undermining and destroying the United States. If you’re someone who likes to find conspiracies, here it is. This is it. Here’s another example, which Andy Ngo reported over the summer. Michael Backes is a 46-year-old trans activist and prostitute from Houston, Texas, who dresses like a girl. 

According to Ngo, the man, “has been standing outside the courthouse in downtown Portland recording people to try to intimidate witnesses who testify in the injunction hearing to enforce sound ordinances at the anti-ICE Antifa riot.” Supposedly, he’s often armed.

Something totally normal that happens in any trial even tangentially involving antifa. They stay outside to film people. This is the LRAD person from that infamous night. pic.twitter.com/v7IZoFhtNA

— C.K. Bouferrache aka Honeybadgermom (@hunnybadgermom) July 26, 2025

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This particular trans prostitute, a deranged individual, a psychopath, who’s reportedly freaking people out near the courthouse to advance some kind of open-borders agenda. And guess what? This person has apparently received financial support from yet another Left-wing nonprofit. Ngo reports that this prostitute has “received thousands in grant money from a trans 501(c)(3) for cosmetic surgery. Disturbingly, the Point of Pride nonprofit describes Backes’ child prostitution past as if it was normal.”

This kind of thing is very, very common. And it needs to be shut down immediately. Nonprofits should not be allowed to fund known criminals, much less known criminals who are engaging in acts of intimidation outside courthouses. And even beyond that, nonprofits shouldn’t be allowed to fund sex changes for mentally disturbed individuals who think they’re transgender. That’s another problem that we can put an end to, overnight. And it’s time to do so.

If you want to read Ryan Mauro’s full report — and you should — it’s on the website of the Capital Research Center. You can read more about how various organizations have received millions of dollars from entities connected to George Soros, and then used that money to endorse Antifa coalitions that have “engaged in arson, property damage and violence against law enforcement personnel and utility workers to try to stop construction of this local police training center. Attacks include setting a police vehicle ablaze; throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks at police; setting construction equipment on fire; blocking roads with obstacles like tires; harming police officers’ eyes with lasers; and attacking the Atlanta Police Foundation’s building with fireworks.”

And on and on. Dozens of charges, including domestic terrorism and racketeering, have been filed in these cases. The evidence is well-established. And now it’s time to act on it.

This is a crackdown that should commence without any hint of hesitation whatsoever. It should be lawful but forceful. We have control of the federal government. We have the support of the majority of Americans. And we’re morally justified. On our side, we don’t celebrate cold-blooded murder. We don’t glorify political assassinations. We don’t deny the reality of biology, or encourage the mutilation and sterilization of children. We have every conceivable mandate to dismantle these criminal enterprises. And we need to carry out that mandate, using the full weight of the federal government. The momentum is ours.

There are other indicators, as you may have seen, that we’re winning this fight.

Last night, for example, the Left-wing activist Jimmy Kimmel was finally taken off the air. Here’s what Kimmel said, in case you missed it:

The left is about to melt down over Jimmy Kimmel’s how being cancelled.

The bottom line is he isn’t funny.

He replaced comedy with scolding half the country.

And he decided to exacerbate his unfunniness by telling egregious lies about Charlie Kirk.pic.twitter.com/ACMMI9EZWG

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) September 17, 2025

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Kimmel was taken off the air just hours after the FCC chair, a man named Brendan Carr, gave an interview with Benny Johnson yesterday, where he suggested that ABC (or more specifically, ABC’s affiliates) might be violating the terms of their broadcast licenses by airing Kimmel’s show.

For background, it’s been clear for many years that Kimmel was violating the terms of ABC’s broadcast license. He was never performing any kind of comedy routine. He was simply delivering propaganda on behalf of the Democratic Party, every single night, seemingly unconcerned with the fact that his ratings were plummeting year after year. In fact, on several occasions, he was caught working directly with Democrats in the Senate to distribute campaign materials. He celebrated the termination of conservatives, including Tucker Carlson. He celebrated when Donald Trump was banned from Twitter. He routinely embraced censorship and partisanship, and now he’s finally gone.

From a legal perspective, Kimmel’s behavior was a problem because, as you may have noticed, not everyone gets the right to use the public airwaves in the way that ABC and its affiliates do. One of the requirements of holding a public broadcast license is that your content must advance the public interest in some way. 

From the FCC’s website:

In exchange for obtaining a valuable license to operate a broadcast station using the public airwaves, each radio and television licensee is required by law to operate its station in the public interest, convenience and necessity. Generally, this means it must air programming that is responsive to the needs and problems of its local community of license.

Flagrant lies about major public events, which are distributed solely for the benefit of one political party, are clearly not in the public interest. In fact, there are specific federal rules against disseminating false information, using the public airwaves, about “crimes or catastrophes.” Again, this is direct from the FCC’s website. These are the rules. They’ve been well established for decades. Just because they’ve never been enforced against these left-wing networks doesn’t mean they didn’t exist.

So, broadcast licensees cannot broadcast false information concerning a crime or catastrophe if the licensee knows the information is false, and it’s foreseeable that the false information will cause substantial public harm, and the false information does actually cause substantial public harm. You can debate whether Kimmel’s lie caused “public harm” under the strict legal definition. But in general, there’s no doubt that flagrant falsehoods like this — falsehoods that effectively endorse political assassinations by running cover for them — are incredibly damaging to the country in every meaningful way. And they certainly aren’t “in the public interest.”

Kimmel knew it wasn’t true that Kirk’s assassin was a Trump supporter. He knew that it made no sense to suggest that. He knew he was defaming a Christian husband and father who had just been murdered in front of his family, and in front of the entire world. But he lied anyway, like the disgusting scumbag that he is. And he thought there would be no consequences for doing so, because he’s been lying for more than a decade, in pretty much the same way.

And indeed, typically, conservatives would hear smug degenerates like Kimmel say stuff like this, and they’d shrug it off. Meanwhile, the Left would destroy conservatives’ livelihoods for infractions that weren’t half as egregious. Conservatives wouldn’t start a campaign to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. They certainly wouldn’t call on the federal government to do anything. That was the state-of-play, right up until the moment Charlie was murdered. That’s not the state of play anymore.

First of all, immediately after Kimmel’s comments, conservatives on X with large followings — including people like Auron MacIntyre at the Blaze — began telling their followers to bombard all of Kimmel’s advertisers, as well as Disney and ABC executives, with complaints. There was a massive response.

And then on top of that, here’s what FCC chair Brendan Carr said, in an interview with Benny Johnson yesterday: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

This is the approach that — along with activism by conservatives on social media — presumably sent ABC executives into a panic, along with the executives at Sinclair and Nexstar, which own the affiliates that broadcast ABC’s content. But it’s not actually clear that Brendan Carr was the tipping point here. There’s evidence that these affiliates, especially after seeing the backlash, were simply tired of Kimmel’s act and outraged by what he had said. In fact, Sinclair is now demanding that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and make a donation to Turning Point. Meanwhile, they’re going to broadcast a tribute to Charlie Kirk in Kimmel’s usual time slot. In other words, there’s no reason to think that the government or the FCC had anything to do with Kimmel’s suspension. The response from conservatives was probably enough.

In any event, the upshot is that, at least for now, Kimmel won’t be able to lie to his 15 viewers anymore, or implicitly encourage them to commit political assassinations. And in response, the best defense that the Left can offer isn’t particularly convincing. Watch:

Stelter says Kimmel “suggested” the killer “might’ve been” a pro-Trump Republican & that Kimmel said the motive was “unclear” & “maybe” the killer was rightwing.

This is a lie by Brian. Kimmel was *definitive* in his false claim that the shooter was MAGA.pic.twitter.com/6RXMHAOF2m

— Jerry Dunleavy IV ???????? (@JerryDunleavy) September 17, 2025

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Again, it’s another lie. That’s all they can do.

First of all, Kimmel didn’t “suggest” anything. He said it. He flat-out said that the shooter was a MAGA Republican.

And contrary to what Brian Stelter is saying, there is no basis — none whatsoever — for saying that the shooter might have been a Republican. Every single piece of evidence contradicts that claim, starting with the fact that he shot one of the most prominent Republicans in the entire country, wrote that Charlie was a “fascist” on one of the bullets, fell into Left-wing politics according to his own family, and had a gay furry transgender roommate. Any attempt to suggest that this was a Republican shooter — including the claim that Stelter just made — is a grotesque lie. And it’s a lie that has legal implications, given that ABC relies on broadcast licenses.

But the lies kept coming on CNN. Here was Van Jones’ meltdown:

Van Jones reacting to Jimmy Kimmel’s show being pulled: “This is a red line that has been crossed for our industry. For the First Amendment, for the right of people to speak. There was nothing hateful about what was said.”

Erin Burnett: “The job should be to speak truth to… pic.twitter.com/NKRH5dt873

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 17, 2025

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He’s wrong that the speech wasn’t hateful. It clearly was. It was, very obviously, an attempt to malign Charlie Kirk’s movement and every one of his supporters. But that’s not the biggest problem with what Van Jones says. He’s acting as though the FCC has just violated the First Amendment, simply because the FCC chair mentioned, on a podcast, that they were considering the possibility of taking lawful action against ABC and its affiliates.

But of course, in his answer, Jones doesn’t say a word about broadcast licenses or ABC’s obligations under the law. He doesn’t acknowledge the very significant distinction between an organization like CNN — which is a cable network — and a network like ABC, which is broadcast over public airwaves. Nor does he address the statement from Sinclair, which was obviously appalled by what Kimmel had said, all on their own. Nexstar had a similar statement as well.

But even if we assume the FCC was the deciding factor — even though it probably wasn’t — the key point is that Jimmy Kimmel and these ABC affiliates do not have a constitutional right to use the public airwaves to disseminate malicious propaganda on behalf of a political party. The use of those airwaves is a privilege. And there’s a mountain of evidence, up to and including Kimmel’s statements about Charlie Kirk, that ABC does not deserve to have that privilege.

Admittedly, at this point, we’re in unfamiliar territory, as conservatives. We’re not used to the idea of utilizing the power of the federal government in a way that inflicts any kind of meaningful consequences on our political opponents — or even that suggests consequences might be possible — in order to improve this country and restore civil liberties to all Americans. We’ve seen how Democrats use the power of the federal government — maliciously and unlawfully — and so we have a natural aversion to the idea of doing anything remotely similar. But not all federal crackdowns amount to lawfare. Not every aggressive action by the DOJ or the FCC is unconstitutional. We don’t actually have an obligation to pretend that every Soros-funded nonprofit is untouchable, or that every corporate media outlet deserves to have a broadcast license. We can believe in the First Amendment, while also punishing unlawful conduct that’s masquerading as legitimate.

Every conservative must understand this. As long as we’re very judicious about how we proceed — as long as we don’t devolve into a Fani Willis-style circus, or go around policing “hate speech” — then we have the opportunity to bring about some of the most significant improvements to American civic life in generations.

We can prevent rioters from terrorizing entire cities because BLM has selected a new martyr, or because ICE officers are arresting illegal aliens in a particular city. We can shut down militant trans NGOs, preventing young people from receiving money to mutilate their bodies or commit acts of terrorism. We can end the practice of strangely well-funded and well-equipped protesters popping up, at a moment’s notice, to harass law enforcement or witnesses in federal trials.

We should do all of these things. The job of the federal government is to ensure that every citizen in this country can enjoy their civil liberties. And a big part of that responsibility is to ensure that criminal enterprises are not operating within our borders, plotting acts of terrorism that will silence conservative expression. Again, the president seems to understand that. Last night, for example, he declared that Antifa is a major domestic terrorist organization. And while the Left will complain about that designation, no reasonable person can really dispute it.

Everyone can see now that the Left supports political assassination. They openly endorse political violence, without any reservation. They revel in it. And there’s strong evidence that some of the most powerful groups on the Left are funding this violence. These criminals have operated with impunity for far too long. Like Jimmy Kimmel, they’ve never contemplated the possibility of facing consequences for those actions. Now, after what they’ve done to Charlie, those consequences — which will be as ruthless as they are righteous — are finally upon them.