Ted Cruz explodes the “mafioso” tactic from the FCC chair to Bench Kimmel

Cruz, the president of the Commerce Committee and a frequent defender of the Trump administration, brought his podcast following the indefinite suspension of Kimmel this week to describe Carr’s actions as “dangerous”.

Car earlier in the week involved on another podcast that ABC could face serious government consequences concerning Kimmel’s remarks on the set of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. A few hours later, ABC shot Kimmel’s show.

Cruz said he did not think the government should punish media societies for political disagreements.

“I like Brendan Carr, it’s a good guy,” said Cruz on his podcast, which was recorded on Thursday evening. “But what he said is dangerous like hell.”

“It is immediately” Goodfellas “, it is immediately a mafioso who enters a bar saying:” Beautiful bar that you have here, it would be a shame that something happens “,” said Cruz, using the emblematic accent of New York associated with the mafia. “If the government begins to say” we do not like what you said that you have said, we will ban waves if you don’t say what we like “, it will end up for the conservatives.”

Throughout the podcast, Cruz stressed that he disagreed with Kimmel’s comments, which he described as “reprehensible”. But he said that a defamation case would have been a better approach than Carr’s intervention.

“It could be right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but if it is used to silence each person in America, we will regret it,” said Cruz. “I like Brendan Carr, but we should not be in this business.”

Trump rejected Cruz’s criticism with regard to the President of the FCC.

“I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot. So I disagree with Ted Cruz,” Trump told journalists later on Friday during an event at the Oval Office.

Cruz and Kimmel have their own story.

The American Texas Senator challenged Kimmel to a basketball match after the actor made fun of his appearance during a show. Kimmel accepted, with the product of the 2018 event going to the charitable organizations that the two men have chosen.

On Friday, in a brief interview with the American Capitol, Cruz noted that the FCC is the jurisdiction of its committee when it was swinging to the other party.

“When the Democrats had a majority, they did not engage in surveillance,” he said. “We will do our job and we are monitoring.”

The republican senator Thom Tillis, a moderate who does not present himself to a re -election in the state of Swing of Caroline du Nord, applauded Cruz for having taken a position on what he called the “unacceptable” behavior of the administration.

Cruz “has shown a lot of courage, and he will be on the right side of history and he is definitively on the right side of the law,” said Tillis.

Most of the Republican legislators, including the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, spent days insisting that Disney made his own financial decision by suspending Kimmel and refusing to criticize Carr. Carr said the company had made its own decision, but said there would be more changes to the future media ecosystem.

The Democrats have uniformly said that Carr had violated the first amendment and called on the Republicans to repel.

“Republican senators should not want to see an army FCC who can attack conservative commentators by future administration,” said Senator Adam Schiff in California.

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