In the week since Charlie Kirk was killed, members of the Trump administration have been honoring him by using one of his favorite platforms — the right-wing podcast — to continue his tradition of threatening people who say things he did not like.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said while speaking on right-wing pundit Benny Johnson’s podcast on September 17. Carr was responding to a question from Johnson about comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who suggested on his late-night show that members of the MAGA movement were trying to “score political points” on Kirk’s death, comments Carr called “truly sick,” adding, “these companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be a