Benny Johnson

Yes.

Yeah.

So you were at Charlie's funeral yesterday.

Uh, you did a number of events and we're so close with Charlie and, um,

when I saw what Jimmy Kimmel did to my dear friend in the hours, the mere hours after his death, which is of course to lie about the nature of the shooting, to lie in favor of the assassin, to lie about who the assassin was and why they killed Charlie, to call him MAGA is to say that Charlie deserved that death because Charlie would have been a MAGA movement president

In the coming years, he would have been probably 49 or 50.

And so to say that his shooter was MAGA is to say that Charlie created the movement that killed him, which is, of course, the opposite of what happened.

Jimmy Kimmel refused to talk about motive.

He did the same thing, by the way,

In his non-apology to Melania Trump last night, he refused to talk about the gunman's motive in Washington, D.C.

This alone is, of course, lying by omission.

They know damn well why these people are murdering Republicans, Trump, trying to murder Trump and murdering Charlie.

And so when I saw Jimmy Kimmel do that, I said, of course, this is abhorrent.

And we led the charge on social media to say this is totally wrong and people need to call their local broadcast affiliates to get Jimmy Kimmel ripped off air.

And sure enough, Jimmy Kimmel got taken off air for a week or two.

But what happened afterward repulsed me and made me so angry because what happened afterwards was we got woke scolded by our own side, by people on our own side, Ben Shapiro, Ted Cruz, use this as an opportunity to get a little doggy treat and a pat on the head by the left.

And to say in this moment where I'm simply trying to defend the legacy of Charlie and say this is disgusting, which, by the way, Erica agrees with me that all of the individuals at Turning Point that currently operate and built Charlie's show with him, they all agree with me.

They were all repulsed and sickened by this.

So was I.

We had attacks from the right telling us like, which is what always happens, which is, well, could you imagine if it was on the other side?