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Harris Assails ABC Suspension of Kimmel as ‘Rewarding’ Trump

NYT > Business > Media · Katie Rogers · last updated

In her new book, “107 Days,” Kamala Harris, the former vice president, recounts how she warned the American public that President Trump would enrich himself, go after his enemies and foment political unrest if elected again.

She just could not have predicted how quickly people and institutions would bend to his will, the one-time Democratic presidential nominee now says.

“I fear that every signal that he is receiving, including Jimmy Kimmel, is rewarding him for what he does and the way he does it,” Ms. Harris said in an interview this week from her home in Los Angeles, the first she has given ahead of the book’s release on Tuesday.

Ms. Harris was referring to ABC’s decision to suspend Mr. Kimmel’s late night show after he was accused by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission of inaccurately describing the politics of the suspect in the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

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