Jon nailed it last night
Trump’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection; the former president repeatedly claimed that Nancy Pelosi was responsible because “she didn’t do her job.”
“I had nothing to do with that, other than they asked me to make a speech. I showed up for a speech,” Trump said.
“You spent two months riling up your base that our country had literally been stolen from them through fraudulent means, that you could never even get a whiff of in a court of law, and let yourself just abuse them,” Stewart said in response. “You pressed on. You abused their trust. You showed up for a speech? You ******* tweeted, ‘Join me on Jan. 6, it will be wild.'”
Stewart continued: “One thing will always be true, and it is the quality of the former president I respect the least: whenever he is cornered and forced to face even the smallest of consequences for his own mendacity and scheming, he reverts to the greatest refuge of scoundrels.”
“This man, who constantly professes to be your champion, who says they’re going to have to go through him to get to you, will always, when the boat is going down, be the first into the lifeboats, because in that moment, he will always say the same thing: ‘I didn’t know anything about it.’”
“In any other country, that lack of accountability would be disqualifying,”
Jon Stewart appeared live on 'The Daily Show' Tuesday night after the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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