Republican Senator Ted Cruz has blasted Donald Trump’s handpicked communications regulator, Brendan Carr, for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel, describing his actions as “dangerous as hell” and “right out of Goodfellas.”

In the strongest rebuke yet from a GOP figure, the Texas Senator also warned that allowing the government to police political content set a dangerous precedent that would come back to haunt Republicans if the Democratic Party returned to power.

“They will silence us,” Cruz said. “They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly.”

Cruz’s comments come days after Kimmel was fired from his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, after making comments about the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The late-night host criticized some in the MAGA movement for

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