JD Vance requires Jimmy Kimmel apology following return from suspension

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Vice President JD Vance mentioned he would "love" Jimmy Kimmel to apologize to Erika Kirk and the folks he "slandered" after the late-night host returned to the airwaves Tuesday after a short suspension.

Kimmel’s present was pulled from the air after his feedback on Charlie Kirk’s loss of life drew backlash from conservatives and Federal Communications Fee chair Brendan Carr , who warned the company may take regulatory motion.

"He [Kimmel] tries to say that he advised a joke. He did not inform a joke. He was truly accusing right-wing America, conservative America, of killing Charlie Kirk. We now know that's false. Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left-wing murderer who was radicalized by a number of the rhetoric that we see coming from the far-Left," Vance mentioned Thursday throughout an interview on " The Ingraham Angle ."

"If you accuse the individuals who've been holding prayer vigils, who've been praying about Charlie Kirk, you accuse them of killing Charlie Kirk , once we know as a left-wing murderer, you are truly apologizing for his homicide, you are encouraging extra of that violence to occur."

Jimmy Kimmel's late-night present was initially pulled off the air final Wednesday after the host’s remarks in regards to the alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk sparked outrage. (David Russell/Disney by way of Getty Photographs; AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)

The vice chairman continued: "If we'll cease this loopy pressure of left-wing violence, we have now to be trustworthy about what it's, and the trustworthy reality is that Charlie Kirk was not killed by a MAGA American. He was not killed by a Republican. He was killed by a left-wing radical. Let's be trustworthy about that truth, in order that we are able to cease it from taking place."

Kimmel’s Sept. 15 remarks criticized the Republican response to Kirk’s assassination, accusing the "MAGA gang" of attempting to politicize it by portraying the shooter as "something apart from certainly one of them" to attain "political factors."

Kirk’s alleged murderer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, surrendered to police and was charged with aggravated homicide, two counts of obstruction of justice, felony discharge of a firearm inflicting severe bodily damage, amongst others.

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A member of the family of Robinson told investigators that he had "change into extra political in recent times" and disliked Kirk’s views, in response to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.

"Clearly there was plenty of gaming occurring — buddies which have confirmed that there was form of that deep, darkish web, the Reddit tradition, and these different darkish locations of the web the place this individual was going deep," Cox told NBC’s "Meet the Press."

Kimmel’s first monologue since his return has drawn greater than 21 million views on YouTube as of Thursday night, and averaged 6.2 million viewers, in response to The New York Instances.