Tag Archives: donald trump

Entertainment

60 Minutes Responds to Trump Accusation Over Kamala Harris Interview

Leave a comment

60 Minutes has responded to Donald Trump‘s accusation that the CBS newsmagazine edited its Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to make the interview extra favorable to her — and the Trump marketing campaign issued its personal assertion in response.

On Sunday, the present launched the next assertion in response to the Republican presidential candidate:

Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful modifying of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That’s false.

60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used an extended part of her reply than that on 60 Minutes. Identical query. Identical reply. However a special portion of the response. Once we edit any interview, whether or not a politician, an athlete, or film star, we try to be clear, correct and on level. The portion of her reply on 60 Minutes was extra succinct, which permits time for different topics in a large ranging 21-minute-long section.

Keep in mind, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vp participated.

Our long-standing invitation to former President Trump stays open. If he wish to talk about the problems dealing with the nation and the Harris interview, we might be joyful to have him on 60 Minutes.

In response, the Trump marketing campaign launched its personal assertion: “60 Minutes simply admitted to doing precisely what President Trump accused them of doing,” stated Karoline Leavitt, the Trump marketing campaign’s nationwide press secretary. “They edited in a special response — from one other a part of her reply — to make Kamala Harris sound much less incoherent than she actually was. Their assertion isn’t a denial, it’s an admission that they did precisely what they have been accused of. That is one other reminder of how hopelessly biased 60 Minutes is, and the way appropriate President Trump was to say no their invitation to be subjected to their pretend information hackery. Launch the transcript!”

Trump has known as the present’s broadcast of the Harris interview a “large pretend information rip-off” and has advised that CBS was making an attempt to assist her. The accusations arose after it was identified on-line that Harris gave a special reply to a query in a teaser clip that aired CBS’ on Face the Nation from what was proven on 60 Minutes. The query in query was in regards to the Biden administration’s sway on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

“It appears that evidently Prime Minister Netanyahu isn’t listening,” 60 Minutes’ Invoice Whitaker says to Harris within the interview.

Within the teaser clip, Harris briefly pauses after which says, “The work that now we have carried out has resulted in a lot of actions in that area by Israel that have been very a lot prompted by or a results of many issues, together with our advocacy for what must occur within the area.”

Throughout the 60 Minutes broadcast, Harris rapidly responds, “We aren’t going to cease pursuing what is critical for america to be clear about the place we stand on the necessity for this warfare to finish.”

On his Reality Social feed, Trump wrote, “Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they really REPLACED it with one other reply to be able to save her or, not less than, to make her look higher.”

Trump has since known as for CBS to lose its FCC license over the interview. FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed that concept, including that Trump’s “threats in opposition to free speech are severe and shouldn’t be ignored.”

In the meantime, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley just lately stated that the Trump marketing campaign provided “shifting explanations” for why the previous president was backing out of the interview.

Entertainment

Bill Maher on Why ‘October Surprise’ Won’t Knock Trump Out of Election

Leave a comment

With the 2024 presidential election simply weeks away, Invoice Maher urged folks to cease hoping for an “October shock” that may “save us from a second Trump time period.”

Throughout his “New Guidelines” section on HBO’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher Friday, the host argued that the previous president may commit the worst crimes “and it wouldn’t transfer the needle in any respect” or “knock Donald Trump out of the race.”

“He’s banged a porn star and tried a coup, he steals from charities. For those who’re ready for an October shock to knock him out, dream on. There are higher odds of one other Joker musical,” Maher stated, referencing the Joker: Folie à Deux field workplace flop earlier this month.

The comic continued, “Trump stated final week that actually doing the Purge, like within the film, could be a great crime-fighting approach. He’s the one candidate the place the voters hope he doesn’t hold his marketing campaign guarantees.”

Maher emphasised that Democrats have “gotten so used to considering there’s at all times an October shock coming, that when it doesn’t occur, it truly appears bizarre… like a celebration at Diddy’s home the place you simply dance.” However he added that “you possibly can’t shock the voter who has seen all of it.”

“The Entry Hollywood tape in 2016 was a basic October shock, and many individuals thought it was one that may work, as grabbing pussy is usually frowned upon,” the host stated for example of a failed “October shock” since he gained the election that yr. He continued, “Together with by James Comey, who was so disgusted by it, he reopened an investigation into Hillary [Clinton] just a few weeks later.”

Maher went on to clarify why it looks like it doesn’t matter what scandal Trump will get himself in, his place within the election gained’t be impacted within the eyes of his supporters. “Trump’s superpower as a candidate is that he’s been so continually and ubiquitously terrible for thus lengthy, that it’s merely not seen, the way in which that you simply wouldn’t discover a brand new face tattoo on Publish Malone,” he stated.

Nonetheless, the host identified that Kamala Harris is “very susceptible” to an “October shock” as a result of “she’s the one one who’s nonetheless undefined.”

The company featured on the newest episode of Actual Time had been David Hogg, Mark Cuban and Joe Scarborough.

New Rule: October Surprise? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Entertainment

Dave Bautista Roasts Donald Trump With Some Very Brutal Descriptions

Leave a comment

What can anyone say about Donald Trump that hasn’t already been mentioned? What potential criticism can one make which may minimize via the noise almost a decade after Trump launched his first presidential marketing campaign? Nicely, Dave Bautista (by way of Jimmy Kimmel Reside!) may need figured it out, together with his brutal roast of the previous president going viral.

Kimmel’s group and Bautista made a video (beneath) for Wednesday night time’s episode of the ABC late night time present the place the Guardians of the Galaxy actor had some alternative phrases concerning the notion that Trump is a masculine determine. Certain, the video is a clear try to assist Trump’s election rival Kamala Harris court docket male voters — a demographic she’s struggling to draw. But the result’s relatively entertaining nonetheless.

“A variety of males appear to suppose that Donald Trump is a few form of powerful man,” says Bautista whereas coaching in a health club. “He’s not. Take a look at him. He wears extra make-up than Dolly Parton. He whines like a child. The man’s afraid of birds. Donald Trump had his daddy pay a physician to say his toes harm so he might dodge the [Vietnam War] draft. Take a look at that intestine — like a rubbish bag filled with buttermilk. He sells imaginary baseball playing cards pretending to be a cowboy-fireman. He’s barely robust sufficient to carry an umbrella. Look how he drinks water — like a bit of pink chickadee. He’s bought jugs, large ones — like Dolly Parton. He cheats at golf, and creeps round magnificence pageant dressing rooms. You understand that little dance he does? He seems to be like he’s jacking off a pair of giraffes.”

Continues Bautista: “He’s moody, he pouts, he throws tantrums. He acts like a 5 yr previous behind the wheel of a truck. He bends over for [Russian president Vladimir] Putin. He’s cattier on social media than a imply woman. The man wants assist strolling downhill. This November, let’s cease kidding ourselves. Donald Trump is afraid of rain, of canine, of windmills, Meryl-fucking-Streep and being laughed at. Largely, he’s terrified that actual, red-blooded American males will discover out that he’s a weak tubby toddler. What’s unsuitable, powerful man? Did somebody seize you by the pussy? Little bitch.”

Take a look at the video beneath.

Entertainment

Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult on Nazi Movie Amid Trump Campaign

Leave a comment

The celebrities of The Order are very conscious that their forthcoming thriller movie, though set within the Eighties, tackles themes that really feel as related as ever.

Director Justin Kurzel’s fact-based crime film is about to hit theaters Dec. 6 from Vertical after premiering over the summer time on the Venice Movie Competition. Starring Jude Regulation, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett and Tye Sheridan, the movie follows an FBI agent (Regulation) investigating a white supremacist group known as the Order and its doable connection to a string of robberies and different crimes within the Pacific Northwest.

Regulation, Hoult and Smollett took half in an onstage panel dialog concerning the challenge following a screening organized by SAG-AFTRA in Los Angeles on Tuesday. In the course of the chat, Regulation, who can also be a producer for The Order, mentioned the modern resonance for the movie that screenwriter Zach Baylin tailored from authors Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s 1989 nonfiction e-book The Silent Brotherhood.

“It was a terrific script with a lot potential: the relevance; the well timed nature of the themes inside it; the truth that, in some ways, it’s oddly a kind of origin of the place we are actually, which we thought was a great way of investigating it with out being too heavy-handed,” Regulation informed the group. “Then, in fact, it’s folded right into a style film. And that was one thing, after we acquired our director Justin Kurzel onboard, that grew to become actually obvious. He was very clear that he needed to lean into the style of the thriller and the cat-and-mouse aspect, however actually elevate it by way of character and thru fact and storytelling.”

Nicholas Hoult (left), Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan and Jude Regulation pose at a TIFF occasion for The Order.

Sonia Recchia/Getty Pictures

Certainly, the movie — hitting theaters roughly a month after the U.S. presidential election — feels notably of the second, arriving at a time of elevated debate surrounding the espousing of racist views on social media and the assist that former President Donald Trump receives from neo-Nazis and hate teams. This screening coincidently came about days after experiences of a Trump-themed boat parade held Sunday in Florida, throughout which boaters displayed swastika flags and cheered for the presidential candidate who is about to face Vice President Kamala Harris within the election.

“It begins so younger, this stage of brainwashing, this us-against-them mentality,” Smollett mentioned concerning the movie depicting younger individuals being inspired to unfold hate. “It begins at infancy, and sure, we will have a look at the place we are actually in our nation and go, ‘How did we get right here?’ However it’s sadly been in our material since our nation was based. It continues to be perpetuated as a result of it’s a illness we haven’t dug out.”

The actress additionally famous the continued affect of the 1978 novel The Turner Diaries, written beneath pseudonym by the chief of a white nationalist group and depicted within the film as being revered by the Order.

“That e-book was discovered on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. sixth,” shared Smollett, referencing the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Constructing by Trump supporters. “It’s sadly fairly related right this moment.”

Moreover, the forged recalled Kunzel’s memorable ways for serving to to ratchet up the stress, with Hoult — who portrays Order chief Bob Matthews — explaining that the director saved him from assembly Regulation in particular person till their first scene collectively.

“We’d shot for 3, possibly 4, weeks earlier than that,” Hoult mentioned. “It added to the power on set, the place I’d get a bit buzz. The crew cherished maintaining us separate, and everybody was like, ‘Jude’s going over right here. Preserve Nick [away!]’ It acquired me all jazzed up.”

In his evaluation for The Hollywood Reporter, movie critic Jordan Mintzer dubbed The Order “a gripping, beautifully made historic thriller.” He additionally wrote, “The Order is the type of tense reflection on American violence that Hollywood not often places on the large display anymore.”

Entertainment

Kamala Harris Sets Fox News Channel Interview

Leave a comment

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to sit down down for an prolonged interview on the Fox Information Channel on Oct. 16.

Harris will probably be quizzed by Fox Information Channel’s chief political anchor Bret Baier because the Democratic presidential candidate campaigns within the battleground state of Pennsylvania and Baier hosts a Particular Report with Bret Baier version. The Wednesday look at 6 p.m. marks Harris’ first formal sit-down interview on the Fox Information Channel after she accomplished earlier interviews on CNN and CBS’ 60 Minutes present.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed out of additionally accepting an interview on 60 Minutes after earlier agreeing to take action. That departed from a practice of the CBS newsmagazine inviting each the Democratic and Republican tickets to seem on the published on the standard TV outlet earlier than Individuals forged their votes.

Harris doing the sit-down interview on Fox Information Channel permits the U.S. presidential candidate to presumably draw votes from conservative and unbiased voters that routinely tune into the 24-hour information service owned by Fox Corp. and reaching into 70 million houses.

On the similar time, the Fox Information Channel look is a danger as Harris will probably be grilled about her plans if she wins the U.S. presidential election subsequent month, together with on hot-button points like immigration and reproductive rights.

Harris was earlier criticized for doing too few TV sit-downs with journalists since changing into the Democratic nominee, however in latest weeks has carried out a media blitz, together with a dwell interview with The View and sit-downs with Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.

Harris additionally appeared on the favored Name Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper.

Entertainment

Sebastian Stan Told Not to Play Trump by Studio CEO in The Apprentice

Leave a comment

It looks as if a provided that Sebastian Stan would have been warned towards portraying controversial determine Donald Trump in The Apprentice, however one studio CEO went a step additional in his warning.

Throughout a dialog with The New York Instances revealed forward of the movie’s launch in theaters as we speak, the actor shared what his household and buddies stated when he informed them he was taking up the position and famous that he spoke to folks earlier than agreeing to it.

“Fairly positive my mother stated, ‘Not less than you get to shave,’” Stan stated. “However I requested lots of people about it, truly. A CEO of a studio informed me to not do it as a result of I used to be going to alienate half the nation, and a casting director, who I respect very a lot stated, ‘We don’t want one other Trump film, you’re by no means going to get any applause for it.’” (Opposite to that casting director, Stan has already begun receiving Oscar buzz for taking part in the previous president and present Republican presidential nominee.)

The A Completely different Man star additionally revealed that individuals requested him if he can be apprehensive about his security following the movie’s launch. “However for some cause each time any individual stated, ‘Don’t do it,’ it made me wish to do it extra,” he admitted.

The Apprentice follows a younger Donald Trump in Seventies New York as he tries to make a reputation for himself because the second son of a rich household. Then he meets cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn, who sees him as “the right protégé,” who will do no matter it takes to win, in accordance with the outline.

Director Ali Abbasi defined that the movie might be interpreted in numerous methods. It may be seen because the story of a person turning into “a monster,” or it may very well be extra about “human tragedy,” if the folks within the story hadn’t been so centered on profitable and taking.

Jeremy Robust, who portrays Cohn in The Apprentice, informed the Instances he feels the movie is “necessary viewing for any sentient beings who care about what’s taking place on this nation” forward of the presidential election subsequent month.

“I feel it gives important perception, which may transfer the needle in an actual approach,” the Emmy-winning Succession star stated. “On this second the place we’re surrounded by rhetoric of hate and divisiveness, I feel artwork has a spot and movie has a spot.”

Stan, for his half, famous that he worries that individuals are “determined for solutions and for steering” and simply wish to be informed how they need to really feel and what’s proper and mistaken.

“This entire discomfort with the movie solely displays why it’s necessary: It isn’t simply what you’re studying about Trump, it’s additionally what you’re studying about your self from Trump,” he stated. “I fear that we’re not going deeper anymore with how we method issues. We’re simply studying Wikipedia pages. If that’s what you’re going to do, then you definately’ll simply float among the many remainder of the ghosts of Christmas previous. However the remainder of us, a minimum of, are going to attempt to resolve some issues.”

Entertainment

The Apprentice Trump Movie Director, Michael Cohen on Trump Reaction

Leave a comment

Shortly after Ali Abbasi‘s Donald Trump origin film The Apprentice had its world premiere at Cannes, Trump’s authorized crew fired off a stop and desist letter to the filmmakers.

However because the movie is lastly set to be launched in U.S. theaters on Friday, through Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Leisure and Wealthy Spirit, the Trump crew has seemingly remained comparatively quiet concerning the venture.

Whereas Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung has denounced the movie in an announcement, the previous president, at the very least primarily based on experiences, hasn’t made any new authorized threats towards the movie nor has he been issuing headline-making statements about it on Reality Social or at his rallies.

When requested about the potential of future Trump threats at The Apprentice‘s New York premiere, just a bit over a block away from Trump Tower, director Ali Abbasi stood by his film and doubted Trump’s crew would sue.

“I doubt they’ve the balls [to come after the film],” Abbasi advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t suppose so, as a result of they know we’re proper. They know there’s nothing to be sued about. They know that issues are correct and double and triple, quadruple checked journalistically and legally. There’s nothing there, you recognize.”

Nonetheless he was defiant about future threats: “I imply, deliver it on. That’s what I inform them.”

The screening, at New York’s DGA Theater, was attended by stars Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Robust and Maria Bakalova; author Gabriel Sherman; producer Daniel Bekerman; and govt producer Amy Baer and even former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who walked the crimson carpet and spoke to media shops.

Cohen, who advised THR that he was invited by longtime acquaintance Sherman and stated he was curious to see the movie, provided some perception into how Trump may publicly react to the film.

“All of it will depend on … what the critiques are. If the critiques are scathing to him, he’ll reply to it,” Cohen advised THR. “You recognize, what he doesn’t need to do is gasoline the dialog about one thing that he didn’t need to be launched. The extra he talks about it, the extra he exposes the film, and the extra folks clearly will need to see it. As Donald will at all times let you know, generally dangerous press is nice press.”

The movie focuses on the connection between Trump (Stan) and New York energy dealer Roy Cohn (Robust), when Trump was an up-and-coming actual property mogul within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, exhibiting how Cohn formed Trump into the person he’s right now.

And Cohen stated he “completely” noticed the consequences of Cohn’s affect throughout his time working for Trump.

“The loyalty that you just have been required to supply was one thing you don’t see in different corporations,” Cohen stated. “It was demanded, and I gave it. And that was one thing that I do know that Roy Cohn advised him.”

Although the movie is being launched lower than a month earlier than the 2024 election, the filmmakers have maintained that it’s not a political hit piece and as a substitute provides a nuanced portrayal of the Republican presidential candidate’s early profession.

However when requested what they needed voters to remove from the movie, Bekerman stated he hoped it will give them a “new perspective.”

“I actually hope that this film does supply a brand new perspective on issues that folks have type of shut off their brains on as a result of they’ve fashioned a really arduous opinion by some means, they usually type of cease actually it. I feel this film does supply a brand new approach to take a look at it, and the best way actually is a humanistic storytelling lens that we take a look at this, these characters by,” he advised THR. “By connecting with the characters as human beings, as Ali directed them, because the actors gave the characters the respect they deserved and didn’t simply painting them as cartoons like they’re, frankly, largely portrayed in most many of the media as of late, there’s a new potential for a brand new perspective, and I feel that’s priceless any time, particularly now.”

Abbasi in the meantime, urged folks to “see it with an open thoughts.”

And whereas highlighting the leisure issue of the movie greater than its affect on the election, he insisted this was the proper time for it.

“I feel it’s a journey. I feel it’s an expertise. I feel it’s truly fairly entertaining. I like the soundtrack. There are wonderful performances. So not all the things is about Donald Trump for or towards,” he stated. “It comes earlier than the elections, as a result of that is the most important occasion. And I’d be loopy if I stated, ‘Oh, I’ve the potential of doing it and never do it,’ as a result of that is very a lot concerning the character who’s working for president. And I’m not going to let you know the best way to vote. However if you’re questioning what sort of character he’s, if you’re questioning how he received to the place he’s, we now have some solutions for you.”

Entertainment

Kamala Harris Addresses Reports That Trump Sent Putin Covid Tests

Leave a comment

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed new studies of Donald Trump‘s relationship with Vladimir Putin throughout her look on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.

In journalist Bob Woodward’s new e book, launched Tuesday, an unnamed aide reported that Trump has spoken with Putin as many as seven instances since leaving the White Home. Different claims included details about Trump sending Putin COVID checks whereas he was in workplace, on the top of the pandemic.

Harris acknowledged on Tuesday that she hasn’t learn the e book but, however mentioned, “Donald Trump — he brazenly admires dictators and authoritarians. He has mentioned he needs to be a dictator on Day One, if he had been elected once more as president. He will get performed by these guys. He admires so-called strongmen and he will get performed as a result of they flatter him or provide him favor.”

She additionally addressed the COVID checks studies instantly. “I ask everybody right here and everybody who’s watching: Do you keep in mind what these days had been like? You keep in mind how many individuals didn’t have checks and had been making an attempt to scramble to get them?”

She grew to become indignant as she continued talking about her opponent’s connection to Russia, saying. “The commander-in-chief of the US of America should stand sturdy and defend the ideas that we maintain expensive. We should always stand with our allies. We should always strengthen the alliances that we’ve, akin to NATO, which is the strongest navy alliance the world has ever seen. We should stand with our pal Ukraine the place Russia is making an attempt to alter borders by pressure.”

Harris added, “And this man is giving Covid check kits to Vladimir Putin? Take into consideration what this implies on high of him sending love letters to Kim Jong Un…He thinks, properly, that’s his pal. What concerning the American folks? They need to be your first pal.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Colbert requested the Democratic nominee about Hurricane Helene, which just lately ravaged North Carolina, and Hurricane Milton, a extreme storm headed for Florida. Harris urged folks to take heed to native officers and criticized politicians who “inform lies” for political acquire.

“It’s crude,” she mentioned. “Have you ever no empathy, man, for the struggling of different folks? Have you haven’t any sense of objective if you happen to purport to be a pacesetter?”

Relating to the Israel-Hamas battle, Harris addressed her assertion that she and President Biden are near a ceasefire deal. “Shut implies that numerous the main points have been labored out however particulars stay,” she mentioned. “And so there was some progress however it’s meaningless except a deal is definitely reached, so I don’t wish to recommend to you that we must be applauded for getting shut at instances to a deal.”

The VP additionally spoke about her debate efficiency, and weighed in on the viral image of herself together with her chin resting in her hand. When Colbert requested her what she was considering in that second, she replied, “It’s household TV, proper? It begins with a W, there’s a letter between it, then the final letter’s F.”

Along with the late night time host, Harris additionally opened a can of Miller Excessive Life and mentioned, “The final time I had beer was at a baseball sport with Doug [Emhoff].”

Shortly after opening the drink, Harris mentioned of her working mate, “He misplaced thousands and thousands of jobs. He misplaced manufacturing. You misplaced automotive crops, you misplaced the election. What does that make you? A loser. That is what any individual at my rallies mentioned. I believed it was humorous.”

She then quipped, “That is what occurs after I drink beer.”

Concerning the whirlwind marketing campaign which solely started in July following Joe Biden’s withdrawal, Harris mentioned, “There’s numerous catching as much as do. My opponent, the previous president, has been working since 2020… Persons are exhausted by that previous drained playbook of Donald Trump’s… Of us are prepared to show the web page.”

The complete interview will air on the Late Present with Stephen Colbert at 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday.

Entertainment

Jon Stewart Slams Elon Musk’s Dangerous Second Amendment Comments

Leave a comment

Jon Stewart returned to internet hosting The Each day Present on Monday evening, and he instantly dove into the doable “October surprises” that would nonetheless impression the ultimate weeks of the presidential election marketing campaign.

Stewart started the phase by briefly wanting over previous October surprises, together with the notorious Entry Hollywood tape, in addition to the media working by means of a choice of latest pure disasters and wars that may turn out to be the dreaded black swan occasion within the waning days of the marketing campaign.

“Why are October surprises at all times so shitty? Why can we by no means get October shock that brings our nation collectively?” Stewart joked, including that he hoped that web stars Pesto, absolutely the unit of a child penguin, and Moo Deng, the impish child pygmy hippo, might begin courting.

Stewart that expanded the purpose about October surprises, by suggesting that they invariably favor Republicans, who capitalize on loss of life and distress to attain election factors. “If monkeypox runs amok, I don’t see how we lose!” Stewart mentioned mockingly. “What does it truly say a few celebration {that a} battle, a strike, and a pure catastrophe work of their favor? Sir, the election’s shut, but when we may simply get the inhabitants shell-shocked and determined, we are able to do it.”

Turning his consideration to latest occasions, Stewart mentioned an October shock for him was seeing Elon Musk, uncovered stomach and all, at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “[Musk’s] October shock is he’s come out MAGA.”

“Now, you may suppose one of many world’s richest males controlling one of many world’s most influential platforms could possibly be a recipe for what some might take into account election interference,” Stewart mentioned, earlier than joking to the viewers, “You silly, silly individuals.”

Stewart referred to as again to the 2016 and 2020 election, when Trump vociferously accused Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg of election interference and identified the brazen double normal now that Musk, the proprietor of the embattled X platform, has come out in assist for the previous president. The phase dived deeper into Trump’s repeated threats to punish and imprison individuals who he felt had been interfering within the election towards him, together with the workforce behind the biopic The Apprentice.

“Trump has threatened virtually all of them with both imprisonment, lawsuits, or censoring, which is why this one part of this weekend’s rally in Pennsylvania was so putting, when Elon Musk was discussing why he helps Donald Trump,” Stewart mentioned, coming to the principle thrust of the phase.

A clip of Musk’s speech from the Trump rally was then performed: “The opposite aspect needs to remove your freedom of speech. You should have free speech with a view to have democracy. That’s why it’s the First Modification.”

Stewart shot again: “Elon, had been you not watching the remainder of the present? A film Trump doesn’t like goes to get sued. A tech mogul he doesn’t like, he needs to place in jail. It’s not free speech if solely Trump’s admirers get to do it with out consequence. That’s simply not the way it works. It doesn’t go that approach. I don’t see how his assist of free speech is “expose the stomach” worthy. I simply don’t.”

One other clip of Musk’s speech was then performed: “However a minimum of the Structure stays intact and is there to make sure that we’ve the First Modification. The Second Modification is there to make sure that we’ve the First Modification.”

A clearly riled Stewart went for the jugular: Weapons don’t defend our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the ruled, laid out by means of the Structure. It’s not based mostly on the specter of violence. It’s based mostly on elections, organizing referendums, a judicial system. Our social contract affords many, many avenues to treatment these points and permits sides to be heard and adjudicated. Weapons, from what I can inform, appear to principally defend the speech of the individuals holding the gun. It’s a device of intimidation…”

Met with rapturous applause, Stewart hushed the viewers as he wasn’t carried out.

“It’s a device of intimidation and one which I feel is definitely being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked. As a result of some individuals in your crowd thought they may have been shadow-banned by Fb. I imply, for God’s sakes, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania. The entire motive you’re there’s as a result of some fucking asshole with an AR-15 tried to completely litigate his imaginative and prescient of this nation’s free speech,” Stewart mentioned, referring to the July 13 assassination try on Trump. “That’s why you’re there. The entire level of a society is weapons don’t determine it. I would like at this second to not commerce in a authorities that gives me many treatments for my issues, reliable or illegitimate, for a scenario the place my rights are decided by what number of militia members agree with me.”

Softening his voice, Stewart concluded by addressing Musk straight. “The nation ain’t good, and there’s quite a lot of points we don’t agree on: selection, immigration, shrinkflation of snack chips, the unholy marriage of penguins and hippos. However, truthfully, dude, a rustic that may adjudicate these difficult points by means of a generally irritating, overly bureaucratic constitutional system of checks and balances and peaceable switch of energy is the one type of nation that I need the kids of Pesto and Moo Deng to develop up in.”

Jon Stewart on Elon Musk, Free Speech & Trump's Election Interference Claims | The Daily Show

Entertainment

Tim Walz Makes Late Night Debut on Jimmy Kimmel, Talks Israel

Leave a comment

Tim Walz started his late evening debut on Monday evening with a name to finish the Israel-Hamas disaster. The vice presidential nominee’s look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! fell on the one yr anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assaults on Israel.

“Little heavy right now,” the veep candidate mentioned. “1200 people lifeless, 46 Individuals. The Vice President and I speak about ensuring that it by no means occurs once more, that Israel’s safe and the hostages are introduced dwelling and the humanitarian disaster in Gaza ends.”

The Oct. 7 assaults led to an ongoing battle which has left over 40,000 Palestinians lifeless as nicely.

Walz additionally mentioned he had spent the day visiting the Nova Exhibit in Los Angeles, a remembrance of these killed within the assaults final yr. Whereas there, he spoke to a lately launched Hamas hostage named Noa. “Like Noa mentioned, ‘We simply need to dance once more.’ That’s what we need to do,” Walz mentioned.

Elsewhere in his late evening debut, Walz spoke about his time as a social research instructor. “Social research academics speak to you about this concept… that we might have totally different concepts, however we have now unity, love the democracy, have an election after which shake fingers and admit the one that gained, gained,” he mentioned.

Eventually week’s vice presidential debate, Walz requested republican vp candidate J.D. Vance if he thought Donald Trump gained the 2020 election. In one of many extra talked-about moments of the occasion, Vance didn’t reply.

Walz additionally mirrored on Kamala Harris selecting him as her working mate. “I actually… by no means deliberate my life to be right here, however I believe my life ready me nicely,” he mentioned. “I’m very pleased with what we’ve finished in Minnesota. I ran and gained a congressional seat in a really crimson district for 12 years, after which [I became] Governor of Minnesota. I believe folks watched, and we have been doing issues — I do know the Republicans say, ‘They’re tremendous radical!’ Yeah, we feed our children breakfast and lunch in school. It’s a radical thought.”

Later, he confirmed the story that he certainly missed Harris’ preliminary telephone name asking him to be her working mate, and shared that he now has her quantity saved in his telephone as his dry cleaner.

“What occurs in case your dry cleaner must get in contact with you” Kimmel requested.

“I didn’t suppose that far forward,” Walz mentioned.

Walz additionally touched on his respect of Harris, and his perception in her potential to guide the nation. “We get alongside rather well. She’s superb. She makes me giggle. And I believe it’s a superb factor, by the best way, I believe a president ought to know methods to giggle, not at somebody, however giggle with issues.”

After the industrial break, Walz spoke concerning the development of calling Republican politicians “bizarre,” which he unofficially began a number of months in the past. Kimmel performed a montage of clips displaying Trump refuting the concept that he’s bizarre.

“If you need to inform folks quite a few occasions you’re not bizarre, you is likely to be bizarre,” Walz mentioned.