Sep. 18, 2025 . Nicholas Fondacaro

In the wake of ABC suspending late night host Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday evening, NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert kicked off On Balance by calling out the “liberal elites” acting like “drunks” who’s “drug of choice is Trump hatred.” He also took a victory lap for the responsible management of Nexstar in blocking Kimmel’s show.

Vittert popped a whole in the liberal media’s swiftly cobbled together narrative that Kimmel was fired for telling jokes. He pointed out that Kimmel wasn’t doing a bit, instead lying to his ABC audience about Charlie Kirk’s assassin being part of the “MAGA gang”:

VITTERT: It comes after Kimmel went out of his way to suggest the suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder was actually part of MAGA.

[Cuts to video]

KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.

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