Jon Stewart lashes out after being accused of hypocrisy over Trump criticism — and it doesn't go well



A Democratic judge sided with New York Attorney General Letitia James last year, claiming former President Donald Trump and his company committed fraud by overstating the value of their assets.

On "The Daily Show" Monday, former comedian Jon Stewart discussed where Trump's civil fraud case presently stands, zeroing in on the Republican front-runner's appeal and corresponding multi-million-dollar bond.

Stewart argued that Trump's supposed overvaluation of his properties was "not victimless," intimating further that those who do likewise in pursuit of profit are immoral if not outright criminal.

The New York Post and critics online intimated this week that Stewart might have some phantasmal victims of his own.

In response to accusations of hypocrisy, Stewart lashed out Wednesday; however, his defense fell flat absent an adoring audience ready to laugh on cue.

Stewart's critique

"What did Trump actually do to earn this penalty?" Stewart said Monday, referencing Trump's $454 million appeal bond, which a state appeals court knocked down to $175 million this week.

"Well, it turns out that for a decade, whenever Trump wanted to get a loan or make a deal, he would illegally inflate the value of his real estate. For instance, suggesting that his 11,000-square-foot penthouse was a 30,000-square-foot-penthouse," continued Stewart. "We all do it. I mean, on my license I'm not listed as 5'7''. I'm listed as 30,000 square feet."

Stewart said that Letitia James "knew that Trump's property values were inflated because when it came time to pay taxes, Trump undervalued the very same properties. It was all part of a very sophisticated real estate practice known as lying."

The host stressed that overvaluations "are not victimless crimes."

Stewart suggested that the banks were victimized, having apparently been paid back at lower interest rates. He also suggested that since "money isn't infinite," persons seeking loans who might have given "a more honest evaluation" could hypothetically have lost out.

According to the host, when it comes to the investment community, "In pursuit of profit, there is no rule that cannot be bent, there is no principle that cannot be undercut, as long as you and your f**king friends [are] making money."

For those who did not watch what Jon Stewart said, here it is. But keep in mind that it has now been found that he overvalued his NYC home by 829% after slamming Trump\u2019s civil case as \u2018not victimless.\u2019 WATCH and then read his story here by @nypost: https://t.co/ebZz6E5weS
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Stewart, criticized

On Tuesday, podcast host Tim Pool dug up a 2014 New York Times article concerning Stewart's sale of a 6,280-square-foot New York City penthouse to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million. The article noted that Stewart bought the apartment for $5.8 million in 2005.

Pool tweeted, "Did @jonstewart commit fraud when he sold his penthouse for $17.5M? NY listed its market value at $1.8M [and] AV around 800k."

The New York Post seized upon Pool's suggestion and obtained assessor records from the year of sale, which indicated the property's estimated market value was only $1.88 million. According to the Post, the actual assessor valuation was even lower, at $847,174.

The Post alleged that Stewart had done precisely what he accused Trump Monday of doing: paying "significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price."

The Post noted that the New York assessor valuation on Stewart's former penthouse "is the exact same citation method and metric that New York Attorney General Letitia James used to value Trump's private and personal properties, and then sued him for inflating those assets."

Parag Pande apparently sold the property in 2021 at just over $13 million at roughly a 26% loss.

Sarah Rumpf of Mediaite suggested that it was unfair to suggest Stewart had "overvalued his property," certainly not by "a staggering 829%."

Rumpf claimed the Post and other critics were conflating different types of real estate values — the actual market value of a property, the property's taxable value, and "documentation about a property's value submitted to a lender for the purposes of securing a loan" — perhaps with the intention to mislead.

Rumpf argued further that it is common for there to be a significant delta between assessed and actual market values, stressing that in Stewart's case, a buyer was willing to pay $17.5 million.

The Post has since changed the title of its article from "Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after slamming Trump's civil case as 'not victimless'" to "Jon Stewart benefited by 829% 'overvalue' of his NYC home even as he labels Trump’s civil case 'not victimless.'"

Stewart lashes out

While "The Daily Show" host's representatives did not respond to the Post's requests for comment, Stewart tweeted Wednesday evening, "OMG!! I've been caught doing something not remotely similar to Trump!"

"I guess all I need to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified docs, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money, grab pussies, discriminate in housing, cheat at golf and foment insurrection and you'll revere me!" added Stewart.

After Stewart threw more rocks from his glass house, critics pounced.

@jonstewart This you?
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Tim Pool doubled down, writing, "My brother[.] You sold a property NY valued at 1.8M to someone for 17.5M and they lost 4M because of it[.] And you paid taxes on a valuation of 748k. 'When it came time to pay taxes he undervalued his property.'"

Blaze TV host Mark Levin tweeted, "Caught red-handed and you make a dumb-ass argument. According to YOU, you are a liar, a fraud, a hypocrite, and you're arrogant about it. Sound familiar, Johnny?"

"They told us that others need to pay their 'fair share,'" wrote investigative reporter James O'Keefe. "Oh what a tangled web they weave!"

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Jon Stewart loses it, screams at Jack Posobiec over vet bill — then the UNIMAGINABLE happens



A video has been making the rounds on social media of former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart screaming at right-wing journalist and veteran Jack Posobiec over a misunderstanding about his support for a veterans' health care bill — but it was the surprise ending, provided later by Posobiec, that has everyone wondering what just happened.

Stewart was in Washington, D.C., to support the PACT Act, a bill that will allocate funds to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, which passed in the Senate on Tuesday night after initially being blocked by 41 Republican lawmakers. Stewart came unglued after the bill failed to pass last week and began screaming at Posobiec and fellow journalist Raheem Kassam.

In a video posted by Kassam, Stewart can be heard calling Posobiec a "f***ing troll" and repeatedly shouting "you're not in good faith."

\u201cMake up your own mind who is \u201cin good faith\u201d here or not.\u201d
— Raheem J. Kassam (@Raheem J. Kassam) 1659376374

Posobiec repeated "I'm for the bill" several times as Stewart shouted in his face. Posobiec later pointed out that he supports the PACT Act, in part because he has personally "serv[ed] in the military." According to Wikipedia, "Posobiec served several tours in the United States Navy Reserve from 2010 to 2017" and "was deployed for ten months at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base."

Another video posted by Penguinsix showed that the shouting match between the two continued to escalate for several minutes before Posobiec is eventually pursued by a crowd chanting "shame, shame."

Then this happened:

\u201cI\u2019m here in DC with @jonstewart and @GruntStyle1SG with a message about helping the veterans\u201d
— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659378507

Who would have seen that coming?

\u201c@JackPosobiec @jonstewart @GruntStyle1SG Great job, Jack.\u201d
— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659378507
\u201c@JackPosobiec @jonstewart @GruntStyle1SG Jack, you are the man! I love that you\u2019re out there bridging gaps and working together for our Vets. You could see John\u2019s uncomfortable and he is tucking tail, BUT - it is amazing seeing you guys working together for the right reason!\u201d
— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659378507
\u201c@JackPosobiec @jonstewart @GruntStyle1SG Honestly props for Jon for calming down and coming to chat. This is what we need more of.\u201d
— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659378507
\u201c@AdamCrigler @JackPosobiec @jonstewart @GruntStyle1SG Agreed Adam \nTakes a lot to go from hysterically screaming to realizing your wrong and being calm. \ud83e\udd1c \ud83e\udd1b\u201d
— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659378507

On “The Rubin Report” Tuesday, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a clip of the heated exchange and its shocking conclusion. Watch the video clip below. Can't watch? Download the podcast here.


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Liberals erupt at Jon Stewart after he mocks people for believing COVID did not leak from Wuhan lab: 'The disease is the same name as the lab!'



Comedian Jon Stewart, normally adored by his progressive fans, became the target of their outrage Monday after asserting the coronavirus pandemic originated from a laboratory leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The theory, once decried by the media as a conspiracy theory despite a lack of evidence disproving the possibility, has gained significant traction in recent months. Prominent scientists and experts, in the United States and abroad, have been calling for more investigation into the theory despite communist China's repeated denials that Wuhan's lab played a role in the pandemic.

What did Stewart say?

Speaking with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show," Stewart said humanity owes a "great deal of gratitude to science" because "science has, in many ways, eased the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science."

When Colbert noted that investigations are probing the "chance" the pandemic originated inside the Wuhan lab, Stewart retorted, "A chance?!"

"Oh my God! There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh, you know, who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab! That's just a little too weird!" Stewart said.

"And then they ask those scientists, 'How did this — So, wait a minute. You work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab. How did this happen?' And they're like, 'A pangolin kissed a turtle,'" Stewart mocked.

"No! The name of your lab — look at the name! Let me see your business card! Show me your business card! Oh? 'I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan.' Oh, because there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan — how did that happen?" Stewart continued. "Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a Turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus. Like, come on!"

Stewart then drew a comparison between COVID-19 and a "chocolate outbreak" in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

"Oh my God! There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened?" he mocked. "Oh, I don't know, maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean. Or it's the f***ing chocolate factory!"

When Colbert pushed back — noting that another possibility is that COVID-19, indeed, came from bats — Stewart explained that Wuhan, China, is not the only place in the world with a bat population. In fact, Stewart cited Austin, Texas, as a city with a significant bat population, and noted there is no Austin coronavirus.

"The only coronavirus we have is in Wuhan!" Stewart exclaimed

What was the reaction?

Progressives turned their anger on Stewart for pushing what many still believe is a racist conspiracy theory about COVID-19.

  • "i have watched you for years. Never been disappointed until tonight. Spewing an unproven, outside theory, is extremely irresponsible. The nuts on the right do NOT need more crazy juice. Please stop," one person said.
  • "[Stewart] was being racist as f**k. And it doesn't matter where a pathogen arises, does it. I don't recall pointing fingers at French airline workers, do you? And @jonstewart didn't allow for any possibility except it being CREATED by the lab. It's from f***ing earth," another person said.
  • "Jon Stewart talking about a covid lab leak hypothesis as if he became a crazy MAGA republican wtf," one person reacted.
  • "What. The. F***. @jonstewart," another person said.
  • "F***. That was disappointing. Not just Jon Stewart's anti Chinese rants, but that Stephen Colbert was cool with it," another person reacted.
  • "What @jonstewart just did was downright dangerous to all Asian-Americans," one person claimed.
  • "Missed seeing Jon Stewart on Colbert and apparently THAT was a good thing... Not good he's pushing the lab leak conspiracy theory... What's up w/him, I thought he was more intelligent than THAT... UGHH..." another person said.
  • "Jon Stewart was one of my idols until tonight. He's giving credibility to the Wuhan lab leak conspiracy and spreading dangerous lies," another upset fan said.

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