YOULike his competitor on CBS, Jimmy Kimmel found the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial to be “ boring and pointless. ” Day two was a different story.
“What the House managers presented today was absolutely poignant,” said the night host at the top of his monologue. They had never seen videos of rioters terrorizing convention attendees. Mitt Romney had to flee, they had a video of that. The crowd slammed out windows, banging on doors, looking for Nancy Pelosi, chanting “Hang Mike Pence.” “
One of the most shocking new video clips, Kimmel explained, was that Pence and his family were evacuated from the building “to get away from the army of dangerous imbeciles that the president was sending his way.”
And Trump sat in his office all the time and said nothing. For hours, ”he said. In fact, he tweeted during this, again blamed on his own vice president, saying he didn’t have the courage to do whatever it took. It was a very powerful presentation, far more than anything I had seen before. “
“I have no idea how you could look at that and vote for anything other than ‘guilty as charged’,” Kimmel said. “Trump should have been removed from office that day.”
As his limited audience started to applaud, he continued, ‘Here’s how you know how devastating this was. This trial was broadcast live on ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS. The only channel that cuts away? Fox news. Gosh, I wonder why? “
In fact, Fox abruptly cut away from House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell mid-sentence so viewers could hear from the hosts of The five, who then denounced the whole process as a waste of time.
The host also shared the news of how unhappy Trump reportedly was about how his lawyers treated themselves on Tuesday, although, as The Daily Beast reported, Wednesday’s testimony put him in a “ really good mood. ”
“They say the last time he was so angry was when he found out there was a Donald Trump Jr.,” Kimmel joked, before playing a clip of the former president’s son defending his father on Hannity. “Why didn’t you drink bleach when your father told you to?” he asked.
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