Dem Rep. Judy Chu on Kimmel: ‘I’m Here to Say No to Trump’s Authoritarian Crackdown’

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CHU: “I’m Congress Member Judy Chu from the Pasadena area and I’m co-chair of the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, which works to protect our precious film, television and music industries. And I’m here to say no to Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on our right to free speech! (applause) Now, let’s be perfectly clear here. First, Trump wrote more than two months ago that Jimmy Kimmel Show should be cancelled. Then, last week, Trump’s FCC chair said that companies should take action on Kimmel, even saying that they could either do it the easy way or the hard way. And the companies got the message. ABC’s largest distributor, which needs the FCC’s approval for a $6 billion merger, immediately followed his orders and preempted the show, and ABC took it off the air indefinitely. So, this was not about comments that a comedian made about Charlie Kirk. This is about a president leveraging the power of the federal government to silence his critics, a plan he’s been open about for months.”