SAT . Jimmy Kimmel had claimed that Kirk’s alleged assassin was likely affiliated with the “MAGA gang” during his Sept. 15 monologue.
Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk said she doesn’t want an apology from late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel for his incendiary remarks about the assassination of her husband that got him booted from the air.
Kirk said Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates dozens of ABC-affiliated stations across the country, approached her and asked if she wanted to appear on the 57-year-old comic’s show where he would apologize.
“I told them thank you we received their note. This is not our issue. It’s not our mess,” she told Fox News’ Jesse Watters after he asked what she would say to Kimmel now.
“If you wanna say I’m sorry to someone who’s grieving, go right ahead. But if that’s not in your heart, then don’t do it. I don’t want it. I don’t need it,” she added.
Kimmel had claimed that Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was likely affiliated with the “MAGA gang” during his Sept. 15 monologue.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during his show’s Monday monologue.
Sinclair and Nexstar media — the two largest ABC Station owners in the country — announced in response they were ripping Kimmel’s show off air and successfully pushed Disney to suspend the Los Angeles funnyman.
Disney said it suspended Kimmel “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” calling some of his comments “ill-timed and thus insensitive.”
Kimmel later offered a tearful, lukewarm apology after he was reinstated — but never actually uttered the word “sorry.”
Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
The assassination, which was caught on brutal phone footage, sent shockwaves throughout the country amid rising concerns about political violence.
Robinson, 22, was arrested days later and charged with aggravated murder and related crimes.
He could face the death by firing squad if convicted.
Watters’ full interview with Kirk will air on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Jesse Watters Primetime.
