Jon Stewart has not disappointed his opinions on the colony of several million dollars between Paramount Global, which owns The Daily Show Network Comedy Central and President Donald Trump.
Five days after the company paid $ 16 million in Trump to settle the trial that the president brought 60 minutes Interview with presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Stewart described her as “shame” before throwing a slide also throwing Arboys under the bus. “Because when you want a sandwich proportionate to the shame of your business,” he read.
After a few other lines during the first half of the show, which largely covered Trump’s recent “legislative coup”, Stewart doubled and brought the former 60 minutes The correspondent Steve Kroft as his guest to discuss the subject.
Kroft, who won three Peabody prizes and nine Emmy for his reports, spent 30 seasons in the show, leaving in 2019.
After presenting Kroft, Stewart called the “unusual” colony before the journalist notes only a few members of the Congress thought it was “corruption”.
Kroft agreed that this decision was “devastating” for journalists to 60 minutes And said there was a lot of “fear there” to lose their jobs, what is happening in the country and losing the first amendment.
After showing an interview with Trump on Fox News, Stewart said: “I would like to know why 60 Minutes Edit was worthy of an acquiescence of $ 16 million from what is considered the Tiffany News, Gold Standard Network for Paramount Of News, where, very clearly, Fox has just done what seems to be a more blatant editing. So, explain to me what was going on in the spirit of Paramount when they said, “Oh, yes, we have messed up, here is your money”. Why didn’t they fight it?
“They never said” we have messed up. “They just paid the money,” Kroft replied.
“Flat Out Protection Money?” Asked Stewart. “Yeah, it was a Shakedown,” he replied.
“Was it purely primordial buying their way … They are sold at the moment, to a gentleman who was friends with the president, Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison in Skydance. Was this regulation just a payment so that this merger could pass and not be disputed by Trump’s FCC?”, Is Stewart?
“Yes,” replied Kroft. “It’s a bit complicated. There is Shari Redstone, who is the chief of paramount … She wants to sell it … So she wanted the sale to pass, but Donald Trump thought that I will settle the score here. He said very often about “ I will continue my enemies’. He was turned upside down [with] 60 MinutesAnd he decided that he was going to continue. »»
