Jon Stewart Criticizes Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Response During Presidential Debate, Praises Kamala Harris’ Abortion Comments: ‘She Crushed That’
Jon Stewart appeared live on “The Daily Show” Tuesday night, where he shared his reaction to the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Stewart highlighted several moments from tonight’s debate, including Trump and Harris’ stances on abortion as well as Trump’s pet-eating immigrants remarks.
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During Stewart’s opening, the show played dueling clips of Trump and Harris’ answers to the abortion issue, including the former president claiming that “we’ve gotten what everybody wanted” after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“I have talked with women around our country. You wanna talk about this is what people wanted?” Harris responded. “Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the healthcare providers are afraid they might go to jail — and she’s bleeding out in a car in the parking lot? She didn’t want that.”
“Holy shit, she crushed that,” Stewart said in reaction to Harris’ abortion defense.
“This is like one of those ‘Groundhog Day’ movies where you get to go back and fix the bad way something happened earlier to the good way,” Stewart continued, referring to President Joe Biden’s nonsensical responses about abortion rights during June’s debate.
The “Daily Show” host later poked fun at Trump’s false claim about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“They’re eating the dogs,” Trump said during the debate. “The people that came in — they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
“Having spent some time in Springfield myself, I believe I know what’s happening here,” Stewart said. “I believe Trump himself may be becoming one of Springfield’s most famous residents.” The show then cut to a clip of Abe, better known as Grampa Simpson, from “The Simpsons.”
On a more serious note, Stewart criticized 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 fucking tweeted, ‘Join me on Jan. 6, it will be wild.'”
Stewart added: “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.”
The host then shared a message to Trump’s supporters, saying, “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,” Stewart said.
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