Jon Stewart slammed the media’s response to Donald Trump‘s hush cash conviction throughout The Every day Present on Monday, criticizing conservative retailers’ 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 information after weeks of testimony from a former tabloid writer, a Hollywood fixer, Trump’s former lawyer and a porn star. He can 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 courtroom system, Stewart stated, “Perhaps our justice system wasn’t a sham, however definitely 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 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 cruel glare of actuality. It’s a place the place a second akin 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 get together’s problem will now be determining how one can “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 all the pieces must 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 typically enable politicians to litigate points on tv, somewhat than in courthouses.
“Our political leaders will not be 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 Individuals are actually residing in two separate realities. Stewart informed the viewers he disagrees with this concept completely.
“No, you’re pondering of the multiverse,” Stewart stated. “We’re all residing in a single actuality, and it may be the information media’s job to litigate the parameters of stated actuality. What the courts do very 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.”