Jon Stewart sharply criticized the media’s reaction to the secret payment conviction of Donald Trump Daily show on Mondaycriticizing the conservative media’s denial of the legality of the trial and condemning the polarized coverage of the event by both sides.
Last Thursday, a Up-to-date York jury found the former president guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records after weeks of testimony from a former tabloid publisher, a Hollywood handyman, a former Trump lawyer and a porn star. He will be sentenced on July 11.
In response to Republican commentators’ claims that the trial was rigged, Stewart said: “Yes, we packed a grand jury, presented evidence and heard witnesses… But why weren’t Donald Trump and his family allowed on the grand jury?” Scandalous!”
Later, discussing the media’s weaponization of the justice system, Stewart said: “Maybe our justice system wasn’t a sham, but he certainly applied our justice system to Donald Trump was”
He continued: “To admit to their own political game, to their own attempts to weaponize justice, to their relentless pursuit of their opponents, to their own dehumanizing rhetoric towards the left, would be to admit a particle of reality into the hermetic field of distortion that was created to protect the Magadorians from the harsh the glow of reality. It’s a place where a moment like this can pass without a sigh of, “What planet do you live on?” For this reason, it is definitely not ours.
Stewart also addressed Democrats’ reaction to the trial, saying the aftermath “was an exercise in hidden and controlled joy” and that the party’s challenge now will be to find a way to “seize the moment politically without giving the impression that this was the plan all along.” beginning”
He also made fun of Biden’s press conference on Friday, during which the president turned and smiled blankly at the gathered reporters as he left the room. “Why does everything have to be so weird?” Stewart asked, calling the scene a “Cheshire Cat press conference.”
Stewart concluded his monologue with a pointed attack on the media as a whole, arguing that both sides of the spectrum too often allow politicians to settle their disputes on television rather than in the courts.
“Our political leaders are not in court, they are here on television, where the media has decided that there really is no such thing as reality.”
Stewart then played a montage of news anchors arguing that Americans in the Democratic and Republican Parties currently live in two separate realities. Stewart told the audience he completely disagreed with the idea.
“No, you’re thinking about the multiverse,” Stewart said. “We all live in one reality, and it may be the job of the news media to question the parameters of that reality. Courts are really good at looking back and reconstructing the reality of what happened. The media could do the same, but instead they look to the future and speculate wildly about the future.
