Rosie OâDonnell tried to use Epstein victims as tools to run a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live! attacking President Trump. ABC saw what she was doing, and it wasnât funny. It was activism. So they wisely killed the segment. She said today the network blocked her âEpstein revealâ on her last guest-host night in August. She still shot eight women herself and posted it on Instagram on September 3. Kimmel already wrecked the hour with politics. ABC didnât want it worse.
Survivors deserve a court, a committee, or a straight interview. They donât exist to give a guest host a closing monologue. Putting them on Kimmel was going to land as a swipe at Trump, not as reporting. Late-night is not a prosecutorâs office. ABC owns the rundown. OâDonnell doesnât. She got the clip out on her own page. That doesnât make the network the villain. It makes the network a company that already watched Kimmel run the audience off and didnât want one more campaign stop in the last slot.
If the files matter, try them in court. Donât dress a political attack as courage and then yell when a comedy show says no. ABC said no. Thatâs the job. Keep the victims out of the ratings fight.