Jon Stewart Blasts Media Coverage of Trump Trial | THR News Video

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Jon Stewart is mocking the media's coverage of Donald Trump's criminal trial. 'The Daily Show' host slammed the likes of Jake Tapper, Nicolle Wallace and Erin Burnett for their extensive and at times incredibly dramatic reporting of the former president's New York criminal trial.

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00:00The legal walls closing in around Donald Trump.

00:02The legal walls are starting to close in on Donald Trump.

00:06Yes, this time, Mr. Bond.

00:10Jon Stewart is mocking the media's coverage of Donald Trump's criminal trial.

00:15The Daily Show hosts slam the likes of Jake Tapper, Nicole Wallace, and Aaron Burnett

00:19for their extensive and at times incredibly dramatic reporting

00:22of the former president's New York criminal trial.

00:25In the segment titled America's Most Tremendously Wanted,

00:27Stewart began by saying that this trial will obviously be a test of the fairness

00:31of the American legal system, but it's also a test of the media's ability

00:35to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way.

00:38Perhaps if we limit the coverage to the issues at hand

00:40and try not to create an all-encompassing spectacle of the most banal of details,

00:46perhaps that would help.

00:47He then followed up by showing clips of cable news's wall-to-wall coverage

00:51of Trump's commute to and from court each day.

00:53Seriously, are we going to follow this guy to court every f***ing day?

00:59Are you trying to make this OJ?

01:01It's not a chase.

01:03He's commuting.

01:05Stewart then highlighted some of the more coverage seen on cable news,

01:09including CNN's Jake Tapper trying to hilariously analyze

01:12a glowering courtroom sketch of Trump,

01:15and also clips of journalists at the trial giving play-by-play reports

01:18of Trump's literal movements, what he did with his lips,

01:21how he moved his neck, and more.

01:22At some point in this trial,

01:25something important and revelatory is going to happen.

01:29But none of us are going to notice

01:30because of the hours spent on his speculative facial tics.

01:34He concluded,

01:34we got a long ways to go here.

01:36It's the first day of the first of Trump's 438 trials to come.

01:40Peace yourselves.

01:41And if you're bored,

01:42you can always start planning

01:43how you're going to f*** up covering his next trial

01:46and the sober mea culpa you'll deliver

01:48during his next term as president.

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