ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly to his Tuesday show to talk about the firestorm Kelly kicked off when he filmed a video with five other Democrats urging the military to disobey illegal orders from President Trump despite never providing an example of such an order. Naturally, Kimmel didn’t want to focus on that. Instead, the duo claimed that Trump was encouraging violence against Kelly and that this isn’t a military chain of command issue but a free speech one.
After Kelly said his family has experience with political violence, Kimmel elaborated, “Your wife, Gabby Giffords, who is a great person and was a congresswoman from Arizona. I assume most people know, and that's why it is galling to hear him say something like this about you, was the victim of an assassination attempt. She was shot and five other people—”
Earlier, during his monologue, Kimmel mocked Trump for claiming he wasn't actually threatening to execute the group, but that is what happened in "the old days." However, he never mentioned Trump's clarification to Kelly himself.
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