FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr earlier said we can do this the easy way or the hard way' as he urged networks to take action on Kimmel

Brendan Carr, the tough-talking, pro-Trump chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed on Tuesday that Democrats and the media had misrepresented" critical comments he made about Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talkshow.

Television conglomerates including Nexstar and Sinclair opted to pull the show for business" reasons, Carr argued, not because of anything he said.