ABC/Sinclair/NextStar have a right to fire someone who is not meeting their standards of employment - have no issue with that.
The issue is - Trump has both on video and social media talked about "Kimmel is next". Long before the Kirk assasination.
Then the FCC chair says we can "do it the easy way, or the hard way".
We also know NextStar is trying to acquire other stations and needs FCC approavl (much like the CBS/Paramount/Skydance/Colbert fiasco).
Kimmel fired.
If the government is putting their finger on the scale, that's wrong. And dangerous.
Defenders seem to keep wanting to point to Truman's overhaul of the White House, but that's because it was structurally troubled. It was a necessity.
No one else has done, to the degree, that Trump is doing now...and that's why it's getting this attention.
This is Trump being Trump. Leaving his stain on everything.