There were a lot of points in the CNN Trump town hall that were distressing,
I guess is an easy way to put it, but few were like just openly reprehensible.
And I think one of the worst was when Donald Trump led some
sort of CNN backed roast of E Jean Carroll.
In the immediate aftermath of him being labeled as a sexual predator by a jury,
he's gonna over $5 million.
That did not stop him at all from attacking her, and
that might be consequential.
In case you missed that moment though, here's what it looked like.
>> Wasn't raped, okay, that was her, George [CROSSTALK].
They said he didn't rape her.
I didn't do anything else either.
You know what cuz I have no idea who the hell she is.
I don't know who this woman?
>> Yeah, so he's focusing on the fact that they didn't label it as actual rape, but
they said that he sexually abused her, doesn't matter.
He conveniently is going to frame that however he wanted.
And they laughed when he said he didn't know her.
And they laughed some more, and they laughed and they laughed and
they laughed as he continued to attack her.
Well, the thing about it was, though,
many of the claims that he was making are the exact same claims that made
the lawsuit not go his way just earlier this week.
He was defaming her this week on CNN in the same exact way that he's spent
years defaming her.
It's already been established that that can be adjudicated in court in a way that
doesn't benefit him.
And so some of you might be wondering,
are we just gonna have another round two of this?
And we might, actually.
Roberta Kaplan, who was also herself attacked by Donald Trump during
previous testimony said, everything's on the table,
obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it.
Carroll was interviewed, I believe, by The New York Times and
said that she has considered suing him for what she just experienced.
There's also another defamation lawsuit, still ongoing, by the way, and so
we might be in this for a bit.
What do you all think?
>> There was a lot of awful parts, not just within the whole town hall,
but even within that E Jean Carroll segment.
I mean, he went on to weirdly say that her cat is named Vagina.
He's like an Austin Powers character, he's like Dr Evil.
And unfortunately, the audience was the minions, right?
[LAUGH] And he smeared her for being a racist against her own husband.
There's just no end to the depravity of Donald Trump.
Now, you've heard me say yesterday on the show, I think it's better that we know.
I don't believe in this not platforming stuff.
He's the leading Republican candidate.
You're not gonna be able to keep him off of the air, I think that's absurd.
And everyone always makes excuses for
MAGA voters than they saw with their own eyes.
And why is there just this overwhelming reaction today?
Is it because we all just found out that Donald Trump's a monster?
No, we all knew that, right?
I think that people are much more horrified at the crowd's reaction,
that they laughed along with Trump on all of those things as he went after this
woman and as he went after everybody and said all these crazy things.
But that's what I've been saying for years now, wake up.
A third of the country loves what he's saying, and it makes people so
uncomfortable.
They don't wanna hear it, they don't wanna hear it.
That's why mainstream media is like, no, cuz my whole life and
if you're younger, you might not know this.
For 40 straight years, especially before the last ten years, everyone on TV,
everyone in print journalism would say, center right country,
the center right country, center right, center right, center right.
We're all right wing conservative, right wing conservative, and the real Americans,
the ones that live in Kansas, not San Francisco, it wasn't just Bill O'Reilly.
Mainstream media ate that stuff up.
They propagated that for decades on end.
And that's why it's creating cognitive dissonance.
They see that crowd go, yeah, make fun of that woman you sexually abuse, yeah.
And they go, well, we've been telling America, these are the real Americans.
We've been telling the audience the whole time these guys represent us.
Oops, yeah, well, better that you see it now, because that's coming down the pike.
And Democrats, their number one thing that they love to do, and
now including the entire establishment, Anna Navarro's,
I don't know if she's still a Republican or was a Republican a second ago.
She's on The View today saying,
I hear people talking about how Biden's too old or Kamala Harris is too this.
Well, why don't you all shut up and vote for him anyway?
Winning strategy, and she's like, you see what's on the other side.
Yeah, and we've been seeing it the whole time.
That's why we told you not to pick Hillary Clinton.
And this time, don't pick Joe Biden.
He's not at 50% like he was last time, he's at 36%.
You're saying, look at the monster on their other side.
So let's go walk into our defeat.
No, let's pick a way better candidate.
So I think that E Jean Carroll, by the way, has every right to sue him again for
defamation and should take another $5 million off his ass.
You've got to be able to hold these two ideas in your head at the same time.
Trump is a terrible human being.
He is currently leading the race for president, and
you're not going to be able to shut him up.
In fact, today we made it official.
We're inviting Donald Trump to a town hall on TYT, come and see.
We'd love to have you.
Hey, maybe you could win over our progressive audience and
by the way, to all the doubters who say you cannot conduct any kind of interview,
town hall or any other event with Donald Trump without getting steamrolled.
Let's see what happens.
Maybe Trump will come on here and he'll do such a fantastic job like he
thinks he did on CNN, and he'll win over the progressive audience.
Come and see, was.
>> [LAUGH] Sorry, I'm trying to picture Donald Trump
sitting in John's seat right now with Jank, and
Jank asking him about grabbing women by the pee and that type of thing.
I don't know, that's quite the vision.
As far as his town hall appearance, this Donald Trump, this is what he does.
He's always going to double down.
He's not gonna just deny it, he's gonna say it's the opposite.
He's going to crush you, he's gonna say, you're an idiot for even asking that.
This is the exact playbook he's run since he sort of emerged on the public stage.
So I can't say that I'm surprised.
But the only thing I will disagree with Jank on,
and only slightly as far as the Donald Trump fan,
I think that the self selection of guy or
gal who thirstily goes to a Donald Trump town hall.
I don't know that they're necessarily representative
of every single Donald Trump voter.
That's where I will slightly and only slightly disagree on the general
depravity, quite frankly of Donald Trump's biggest fans.
>> So was, I hear you on that, but look, let me just be clear.
No, he doesn't represent everybody, that's obvious.
He doesn't get 100% of the vote on the Republican side.
At the same time, he is leading by 30 points.
>> It's fair, and this is the thing too,
I think some of the things that endeared Donald Trump in
the beginning to Republican voters, I think, still stands.
When I see guys like Mitt Romney come out against Donald Trump that's
exactly what they like about him.
He is not the cookie cutter establishment figure that these other cats are.
And that's what they like about him more than anything, right.
These quote unquote rhinos who basically wagged their fingers and was like, no,
no, we know what's best for you.
We pick your representatives for you.
We don't wanna pick representatives, that more in line with how you feel.
These are the things that they liked about Donald Trump and
what propelled him to victory against guys like Jeb with an exclamation point, right.
And so, I don't know.
I think these things sort of serve that image of him to his
people when he goes on TV and doubles down on his insanity.
>> Yeah, back to agreement,
his anti establishment talking points because it's not real.
He would love to be part of the establishment, etc.
Yeah, but it is very effective, and that's why a lot of people love Trump,
not necessarily because they're racist, etc.
I think it's 50/50, I think Hillary Clinton was exactly right.
Half of them are people who are just mad at the establishment,
having a hard time in life, etc.
Another 50% are the deplorables, and I don't mind saying that at all.