Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called on Brendan Carr to be ousted as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel over comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Schumer labeled Carr as “one of the greatest threats to free speech America has ever seen” after Carr backed the suspension.

“What Brendan Carr is doing is despicable. What he did to Jimmy Kimmel, he is doing to person after person, network after network, intimidating them and threatening them,” Schumer said in a social media post.

“He is one of the greatest threats to free speech America has ever seen,” Schumer continued. “He should resign immediately. Trump should fire him.”

Disney and ABC yanked Kimmel’s show from the airwaves on Wednesday after

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