During a rare Friday edition of his ABC show, legal non-expert Jimmy Kimmel asserted that Republicans who claim to be outraged at the conviction of former President Donald Trump are lying.
For Kimmel, Republicans are simply scared of Trump, “And then we have our leaders in the GOP who could not care less about Americans and how important it is that we have faith in our legal system. They know Trump is guilty. They don’t even like Donald Trump, but they’re so scared of him. Ted Cruz was on our show back in, I think it was, 2016. He told me, and this is a quote, he said this on television, he said, ‘If I were in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera, I’m not confident which pedal I’d push.’”
Teeing up a montage of various Republicans denouncing the outcome, Kimmel continued, “Okay? But that primal urge to run Trump over didn’t stop Sweaty Teddy and all the other pathetic sycophants jockeying for lip space on his big, pimply ass from pretending to be outraged by this outrageous attack on their beloved Baron Von Shitzenpants.”
What does not liking Trump have to do with anything? CNN legal analyst Elie Honig is a reliable liberal who has written books on his strong dislike of Trump’s presidency. Yet, he reacted to the verdict by arguing that any liberal who doesn’t have a problem with Judge Juan Merchan being a Biden donor is a hypocrite and that there is a compelling argument to be made that Trump was denied his Sixth Amendment right to be fully informed of the charges brought against him.
Of course, Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t care about any of that because for the late night comedians, the case was simply about getting Trump and to the extent that the details of the case mattered, they only did so insofar as they could make it about sex.
Here is a transcript for the May 31 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5/31/2024
11:39 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: And then we have our leaders in the GOP who could not care less about Americans and how important it is that we have faith in our legal system. They know Trump is guilty. They don’t even like Donald Trump, but they’re so scared of him. Ted Cruz was on our show back in, I think it was, 2016. He told me, and this is a quote, he said this on television, he said, “If I were in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera, I’m not confident which pedal I’d push.”
Okay? But that primal urge to run Trump over didn’t stop Sweaty Teddy and all the other pathetic sycophants jockeying for lip space on his big, pimply ass from pretending to be outraged by this outrageous attack on their beloved Baron Von Shitzenpants.