Colin Jost and Michael Che took several swipes at current president Joe Biden and former commander-in-chief Donald Trump during Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment.
05.04.2023 - 00:03 / perezhilton.com
Donald Trump has been arrested. A former President has been not just indicted but arrested, arraigned, the whole nine yards. We live in truly WILD times.
This all seemed both impossible AND inevitable. For those who have been paying attention this whole time, much of what Trump was charged with was common knowledge. After all, his former lawyer Michael Cohen went to prison for the hush money payments. Trump was listed in those legal docs as the man behind the scheme, “Individual-1” — but it was later confirmed it was the POTUS.
Related: Ivanka’s Hilariously Political Statement On Daddy’s Indictment
So what’s new?? Why are charges being brought now?? Well, first let’s let DA Alvin Bragg explain…
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1 Bragg’s Breakdown 2 A 3rd Hush Money Payment?? 3 Sullying The White House 4 Trump’s Immediate Response Bragg’s BreakdownIn a press conference following the arraignment, he explained to reporters why he’d originally hesitated to bring these seemingly obvious charges:
Now he’s confident they can prove “34 false statements” Trump “made to cover up other crimes.” Why is it so important Trump be charged? After all, he’s well aware of the political firestorm this is causing. Bragg said first off:
It’s a really important point. A lot of critics of the decision to indict have said Trump is being prioritized as a target because he’s the former president. In a way, we agree. It’s crucial that the rich and powerful be deterred from committing crimes — especially when those crimes make you richer and more powerful! That’s the case being argued here, obviously, considering Trump allegedly committed these crimes to cover up campaign finance violations — and he won the 2016 election by the slimmest of margins. Saying he
Colin Jost and Michael Che took several swipes at current president Joe Biden and former commander-in-chief Donald Trump during Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment.
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The View baffled after describing the recent arrest of Donald Trump as “sad”.Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30, in the first criminal case against a former US President. He has pleaded “not guilty” to 34 accounts against him.The charges faced by the former POTUS stem back to 2016, when adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal claimed that they were paid in an attempt to silence claims of extramarital affairs.Addressing the historic arrest on a recent episode of The View, Goldberg said to her co-hosts: “How are you feeling about a historic day? You know, it’s sad, but I’m glad something’s happening.”Surprised by her comments, her colleague Joy Behar replied: “It’s not sad, what’s sad?”Goldberg clarified: “Well, I’m sad that, in that [it is] an American president.”Behar said in response: “That he’s being called in for questioning et cetera and he’s being indicted because he committed certain crimes is not sad, that’s American justice.”Goldberg added: “It’s the first time in any of our lifetimes, and I don’t think any of us could have really imagined this.”Fellow host Sunny Hostin then pushed back, saying: “I imagined it.”Goldberg said: “With him, no, but I mean with other presidents.”Last month, Goldberg apologised for using a racial slur on the US talk show while referring to Trump’s supporters.“The people who still believe that he got, you know, gyp**d somehow in the election, will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay the… “ Goldberg said, pausing to burp.
After Donald Trump was indicted with 34 felony charges, the late-night show hosts had a field day poking fun at the former U.S. president.
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a recent Quinnipiac poll, as Pskai pointed out, a whopping 90% of Republicans see the move from DA Alvin Bragg as politically motivated; 70% of independents agree along with 30% of Democrats.“It doesn’t really matter that that is based entirely on the phony claims by leading Republicans,” Psaki said of the poll’s results. “But the thing is, there’s absolutely nothing to gain by adding more fuel to that fire.”Currently, that fire is being fueled by the likes of House speaker Kevin McCarthy, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Trump himself.
Ivanka Trump has broken her silence on her father Donald Trump’s indictment.
Stormy Daniels is speaking out for the first time about Donald Trump‘s indictment!
Donald Trump‘s lawyer answered the question that everyone has been asking since the news broke that the former president had been indicted – will he be in handcuffs at any point?
The Trump family is speaking out after Donald Trump made history as the first sitting or former president to be indicted.
As expected, the hosts of “The View” were thrilled on Friday morning, after a New York grand jury voted to indict twice-impeached former president Donald Trump. But they were also hopeful that a certain former opponent of his was basking in the news as well.During the morning’s Hot Topics discussion, host Ana Navarro joked that “Donald Trump finally won a popular vote yesterday,” and disagreed with many of her fellow Republicans on the move.
former president Donald Trump’s indictment, giving its panel of Fox News mainstays plenty of room to have unfiltered, knee-jerk reactions in real-time. Jesse Watters, for one, was visibly angry, and warned that the “country’s not going to stand for it.”“People better be careful, and that’s all I’ll say about that,” the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host said.
Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury yesterday (March 30), in the first criminal case against a former US President. Numerous famous faces from the entertainment world have since shared their thoughts on the decision.The charges faced by the former POTUS stem back to 2016, when adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal claimed that they were paid in an attempt to silence claims of extramarital affairs.According to the charges, in late 2016 – amid his presidential campaign – Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 (£105,300) to stay silent about an incident a decade earlier.
Donald Trump indictment news is making headlines. Several law enforcement officials have been meeting to plan for a potential indictment of the Former US President on charges related to hush money payments, among other alleged crimes, per Politico.The Manhattan grand jury has been hearing evidence in the criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged role in hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump on criminal charges. While the exact charges are not yet known, they relate to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly prior to the 2016 US federal election.The indictment, which follows an investigation led by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, makes Trump the first former US president to face criminal charges.
Today’s indictment of Donald Trump quickly became tonight’s punchline for TV’s late-night hosts.