Jimmy Kimmel is accusing his critics of having “intentionally and maliciously mischaracterized” his comments about the accused killer of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, leading to the temporary suspension of his ABC program.
During an interview on Wednesday at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles, Kimmel said he initially dismissed the backlash as “distortion on the part of some of the right-wing media networks” and claimed he only sought to “correct” the record.
Kimmel came under fire after his Sept. 17 monologue, where he claimed that President Donald Trump’s supporters were desperate to portray Kirk’s accused killer “as anything other than one of them,” accusing conservatives of trying to “score political points” over Kirk’s murder.
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