Jon Stewart Rips Donald Trump's Right-Wing Defenders

Adam Johnson
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Adam Johnson
July 03, 2015Video

Thursday night, Jon Stewart recapped Donald Trump's latest PR embarrassment. After calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" last week and suffering the entirely predictable and righteous backlash, Trump went on a media tour to explain his strange, racist diatribe. Instead of apologizing and trying to move on, he doubled down; awkwardly telling CNN's Don Lemon that "somebody's doing the raping" whatever that means.

The Daily Show host was having none of it, replaying Trumps words a total of five times so we can all hear what he said: Mexicans were "bringing their rapists" and "criminals" into the United States. A notion that not only turns out to be deeply offensive, but as Jon Stewart points out, entirely untrue. 

But what really offended Stewart was less so Trump's racist buffoonery — which he compared to a chimp's inability to not throw feces — but the number of right-wing hacks who stepped in to defend Trump from the "PC Police" after he was exposed.

Watch below. It's a pretty inspired rant, and one that becomes even more urgent when Stewart reveals Trump is actually polling second in major primary states:

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