The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Donald Trump's Post-Truth Defenders and the Smearing of Alexander Vindman

Episode Date: November 2, 2019

Trevor argues that President Trump's defenders are trying to destroy the notion of objective truth and breaks down the wild conspiracy theory about Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Learn more about your a...d-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about. All the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second.
Starting point is 00:00:47 I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. One of the tactics that Trump's defenders and some of these Republicans have mastered is, they figured out that one of the best ways to defend Trump is not to defend him because you can't defend him, but rather make it seem like everybody cannot be trusted. There is no truth. There is nothing you can verify in this world, and nothing can be believed, and so if that's theuth, there is nothing you can verify in this world, and nothing can be believed, and so if that's the case, why do anything?
Starting point is 00:01:27 That's fundamentally what they're doing. Because I'm sorry, like when you get to the point where you're going, like purple heart veterans are not patriotic, and you don't trust them. It's like, what, so, what, explain the long con to me, the thing. I always like, I like to go with the conspiracy theor's and be like, okay, tell me, tell me the full story. Because a lot of people don't say like the why in the house. So this person came what, as like, as a three-year-old. And already then, the go fight in the military. Not die, but fight. Just fight. Fight so hard that he's gonna receive the Purple Heart, but not be in danger.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Just enough danger to get the Purple Heart, but not so much danger that he doesn't come back. Get the Purple Heart, win everything. Then wait for Trump to become President. Then, when Trump is president, listen to his his his his and then bust him on the quid pro quo That's the plan Come like really and then Bill Taylor and another person and you're like what's what's more believable is it that all of these people Who have served under Obama and Bush and maybe even Clinton all of these people?
Starting point is 00:02:43 All of these people are somehow corrupt liars, or is there a possibility that the one guy is not telling the truth? I mean, I mean. I mean. The Daily Show with Kervanoa, ears edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show.com.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. Hey, everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls?
Starting point is 00:03:37 We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast.

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