What to know about Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission
News Source : Associated Press
News Summary
- Brendan Carr is a longtime FCC commissioner named as chairman by President Donald Trump in November.
- In the months since, he has launched investigations of ABC, CBS and NBC news.
- Carr said Kimmel appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that conservative activist Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.
- He wrote a section devoted to the FCC in “ Project 2025,” a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) ABC took comic Jimmy Kimmels latenight show off the air indefinitely Wednesday, just hours after Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr called his comments about Cha [+4104 chars]