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Jimmy Kimmel says joke was not a call for assassination as the Trumps demand his firing
Hours after the president and first lady called for Jimmy Kimmel’s ouster, the late-night host defended the joke that sparked their ire in the wake of an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner
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