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  • - Donald Trump has figured out a really powerful

  • and strange thing about American media and news,

  • and that is, if you exist without any shame,

  • it doesn't become a scandal in the same way.

  • (audience members chuckle)

  • I don't know how to explain it, but it's really powerful.

  • Look at the Joe Biden-Hunter Biden thing, right?

  • As far as we know to this point, everyone has investigated.

  • Journalists have gone to,

  • they've said there's nothing improper here.

  • It's not a great look that they hired Hunter Biden,

  • but companies do this all the time.

  • They hire people for the optics, you know what I mean?

  • Netflix has ex-Obama people

  • that didn't know anything about TV,

  • but it's what boards do all the time,

  • but that's what they've investigated.

  • But Trump has a brilliant technique

  • of turning a conspiracy theory into a sort of fact,

  • but then he's great at turning his facts

  • into sort of conspiracy theories.

  • It's a really powerful thing.

  • Like with Obama, he's like, I don't know.

  • People are saying Kenya.

  • Maybe Kenya, maybe Kenya, maybe Ken.

  • And then one day the news was like, was Obama born in Ken...

  • And then you're like, how did this happen?

  • (audience laughs)

  • And then there's enough people a home who watch it,

  • and they go like, I've heard that he was born in...

  • And then you're like, where did you hear this?

  • They're like, I don't know, it was on the news.

  • And you don't realize how quickly you can shift

  • the Overton window, like, what people are talking about

  • or thinking is normal just by the news covering it.

  • And then he does the flip with the things he does.

  • So they'll be like, we found Trump did this wrong,

  • and he's like, I don't know who said, that's fake.

  • (audience laughs) That's completely fake.

  • And then on the news, they'd be like,

  • Donald Trump says it's fake, but they don't correct him.

  • They just say he said it's fake,

  • and then people at home are like, oh, it's fake.

  • And it's just, it's a brilliant technique,

  • and I promise you, I don't care who the nominee is,

  • watch it for this race.

  • It's going to be Donald Trump's scandals

  • and controversies are out in the open,

  • and he won't have to answer for them,

  • and whoever's running against him,

  • they're gonna nitpick every tiny little thing.

  • You ran a stop sign in 2014.

  • (gasps, stammers)

  • And then the Democratic candidate's gonna be like,

  • (whining) yeah, but I'm sorry, I wanna apologize.

  • It's like, why are you apologizing?

  • Trump's like, you should've never done it.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Never done it.

  • (The Daily Show theme music plays)

- Donald Trump has figured out a really powerful

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