“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said at the time.
This sharp reversal has fueled accusations that Kimmel is rewriting history to save his career after his show was briefly suspended.
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Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show and spokesman for Turning Point USA, dismissed Kimmel’s explanation as “not good enough.” On X, Kolvet wrote:
“He’s emotional for himself because he almost torched his entire career.”
Kolvet even drafted the apology he said Kimmel should have given: “I’m sorry for saying the shooter was MAGA. He was not. He was of the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lying. Please accept my sincere apology. I will do better. I was wrong.”
Other conservative commentators also piled on. Dana Loesch declared, “No apology. He outright lied about the killer because he hated the politics of the victim. Jimmy Kimmel can pound sand.”
