Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden said Thursday that the White House never reached out to Disney during its September suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Walden told Bloomberg’s “The Circuit” that during the several days Disney suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show, nobody from the White House contacted the company, despite President Donald Trump’s public comments on Kimmel.

“We did not hear from them,” Walden told journalist Emily Chang.

Following pressure from local ABC-affiliate stations, Disney and ABC suspended Kimmel’s show for several days in September after backlash from Trump and conservatives over his on-air implication that the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk was a Trump supporter, even though authorities at the time said the suspect leaned left pol

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