LOADING ERROR LOADINGOn Tuesday, an hour before Kimmel’s show aired live on most ABC stations, Trump slammed the network on Truth Social, saying, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”AdvertisementHe later claimed in his post that the host is “another arm of the DNC,” before he lobbed a legal threat at ABC. Let’s see how we do,” he wrote, before he referenced ABC’s agreement in 2024 to settle a defamation case brought by Trump. Heidi Kitrosser, professor of law at Northwestern University, told HuffPost of her concerns about Trump’s recent threat to take legal action against ABC. “ABC falls in the media exception and cannot remotely be construed as an arm of [the] DNC,” he said.
