Former CNN anchor and self-appointed guardian of the truth Jim Acosta unleashed several bits of fake news in the early moments of his Thursday podcast as he reacted to ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Most notably, Acosta claimed that all Kimmel did was call out MAGA for politicizing Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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We know this because Acosta later played the clip, but not before adding, “Let's at least play what Jimmy Kimmel said and talk about it on the other side because I think this has been twisted around by the far-right and then just ABC and the stations responded to it.”
In the clip, Kimmel was shown declaring, “New lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
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