Jon Stewart slammed the media’s response to Donald Trump‘s hush cash conviction throughout The Every day Present on Monday, criticizing conservative shops’ denial of the trial’s legitimacy and denouncing each side’ polarized protection of the occasion.
Final Thursday, a New York jury discovered the previous president responsible on all 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data 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 mentioned: “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 courtroom system, Stewart mentioned, “Possibly 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 discipline that has been created to guard Magadonians from the tough glare of actuality. It’s a place the place a second comparable 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 social gathering’s problem will now be determining the 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 massive, arguing that each side of the spectrum too usually permit politicians to litigate points on tv, relatively than in courthouses.
“Our political leaders usually are not in courtroom, 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 reports anchors alleging that Democratic and Republican People at the moment are residing in two separate realities. Stewart advised the viewers he disagrees with this concept totally.
“No, you’re considering of the multiverse,” Stewart mentioned. “We’re all residing in a single actuality, and it may be the information media’s job to litigate the parameters of mentioned 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 a substitute is look ahead and wildly speculate on the longer term.”