On Tuesday, “The Daily Show” roasted the reaction from conservative circles to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida residence by contrasting it to how things went when Hillary Clinton was under investigation back in the day. And it was actually pretty funny!
To make the hypocrisy crystal clear, the late night program simply took footage of various Fox pundits talking about Clinton in 2016, but swapped out the footage of her with footage of the Trump raid from Monday instead.
Fox News, in particular, has aired hours of content featuring various Republican figures and new personalities advancing various conspiracy theories about the raid. Jesse Watters, for one demanded that FBI chief Chris Wray, a Trump appointee, be fired. Other Fox News types called the FBI itself into question, and many agree it’s an “abuse of power” by the Biden administration.
But when you roll the tapes, the entire network sang a very different tune six and seven years ago when Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI for how she managed confidential or classified communications with a private email server. Back then, as far as Fox News was concerned, no one is above the law and the investigation served a very serious national need.
It all provided “The Daily Show” with plenty of material to mock. Watch it all in the video above.
