Jon Stewart slammed the media’s response to Donald Trump‘s hush cash conviction throughout The Day by day Present on Monday, criticizing conservative retailers’ denial of the trial’s legitimacy and denouncing either side’ polarized protection of the occasion.
Final Thursday, a New York jury discovered the previous president responsible on all 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information after weeks of testimony from a former tabloid writer, a Hollywood fixer, Trump’s former lawyer and a porn star. He might be sentenced on July 11.
In response to Republican commentators’ claims that the trial was rigged, Stewart stated: “Sure, we impaneled grand juries and submitted proof and cross-examined witnesses… However how was Donald Trump or his household not allowed on the jury? Outrageous!”
Later, whereas discussing the media’s weaponization of the court docket system, Stewart stated, “Perhaps our justice system wasn’t a sham, however actually making use of our justice system to Donald Trump was.”
He continued, “To confess their very own political gamesmanship, their very own makes an attempt at weaponizing justice, their very own relentless pursuit of opponents, their very own dehumanizing rhetoric in the direction of the left could be to permit a molecule of actuality into the hermetic distortion area that has been created to guard Magadonians from the tough glare of actuality. It’s a place the place a second equivalent to this subsequent one can move with out a lot as a puff of, ‘What planet do you reside on?’ For it, it’s clearly not ours.”
Stewart additionally addressed Democratic response to the trial, saying the aftermath “was an train in hid and managed glee” and that the celebration’s problem will now be determining the best way to “exploit the second politically with out giving the impression that this was the plan all alongside.”
He additionally poked enjoyable at Biden’s viral press convention second from Friday, when the president turned and smiled blankly on the press pool as he was leaving the room. “Why does every little thing need to be so bizarre?” Stewart requested, calling the scene a “Cheshire cat press convention.”
Stewart concluded his monologue with a harsh takedown of the media at giant, arguing that either side of the spectrum too usually permit politicians to litigate points on tv, reasonably than in courthouses.
“Our political leaders aren’t in court docket, they’re right here on TV, the place the information media has determined that there’s actually no such factor as actuality.”
Stewart then performed a montage of stories anchors alleging that Democratic and Republican People at the moment are dwelling in two separate realities. Stewart advised the viewers he disagrees with this concept completely.
“No, you’re considering of the multiverse,” Stewart stated. “We’re all dwelling in a single actuality, and it may be the information media’s job to litigate the parameters of stated actuality. What the courts do rather well is look backward and reconstruct the realities of what occurred. The information media might do the identical, however what they do as an alternative is look ahead and wildly speculate on the longer term.”
Jon Stewart Mocks Republican Response to Trump Verdict: “What Planet Do You Dwell On?”
