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   NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against   
   ABC and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, urging the network to   
   “get the bum off the air” in a social media post sent shortly after the   
   comic’s latest episode ended.   
      
   The president this week had also expressed anger at the network’s chief   
   White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, for questions she asked in an   
   Oval Office meeting, which his press staff followed with a 17-point memo   
   listing grievances against ABC News.   
      
   Trump’s latest attack against Kimmel came two months after ABC   
   temporarily suspended the comic for remarks made following the   
   assassination of GOP activist Charlie Kirk. ABC lifted the suspension   
   following a public outcry.   
      
   Kimmel’s show Wednesday night began with a blistering monologue about   
   Trump, the first 10 minutes concentrated on the late sex offender   
   Jeffrey Epstein and Congress’ vote this week to release more material   
   from Epstein’s correspondence. He noted the country was carefully   
   following the movements of “Hurricane Epstein.”   
      
   “We are ever closer to answering the question: What did the president   
   know, and how old were these women when he knew it?” Kimmel said,   
   riffing off a question Sen. Howard Baker Jr. asked about Richard Nixon   
   during the Watergate saga in the 1970s.   
      
   Trump struck back in a Truth Social post sent at 12:49 a.m. Eastern.   
   “Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY   
   POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air? Why do the TV Syndicates put up   
   with it?” Trump said. The latter was a reference to ABC affiliates, some   
   of whom got the movement toward Kimmel’s brief suspension started in   
   September by complaining about his Kirk content.   
      
   ABC said it would not comment about Trump’s statement on Kimmel, whose   
   ratings saw a bump upon his return to the air in September. While Trump   
   associated him with ABC News, Kimmel works for the network’s   
   entertainment division.   
      
   Kimmel isn’t the only late-night comic to draw Trump’s ire lately. Over   
   the weekend, he called for the firing of NBC’s Seth Meyers.   
      
   The Epstein case was one of three topics that ABC’s Bruce asked about in   
   pointed questions during an Oval Office news conference Tuesday. The   
   president called Bruce a “terrible reporter” and said he didn’t like her   
   attitude. The Epstein story has clearly gotten under Trump’s skin. Late   
   last week, Trump referred to a Bloomberg News reporter, Catherine Lucey,   
   as “piggy” during a question-and-answer session on Air Force One.   
      
   On Wednesday, the White House press office released a letter outlining   
   grievances against ABC News, some dating back to the president’s first   
   term. “ABC ‘News’ is not journalism,” the press office said. “It’s   
   a   
   Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network.”   
      
   Among the complaints: George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate claim that Trump   
   had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, for   
   which ABC’s parent Disney Corp. agreed to pay $15 million to settle a   
   defamation lawsuit; the network’s fact-checking of Trump during his 2024   
   presidential debate with Kamala Harris; and former ABC correspondent   
   Terry Moran calling Trump aide Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.”   
      
   There was no immediate comment from ABC News about the criticism.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/trump-abc-jimmy-kimmel-mary-bruce-fa73b610c66d   
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