Jimmy Kimmel had a field day on Live during Wednesday’s (Oct. 3) broadcast after Special Counsel Jack Smith released a sprawling new report detailing how Donald Trump attempted to steal the 2020 election and allegedly participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The report included details from Trump’s private conversations with former Vice President Mike Pence, in which he “pressured” him to help change the 2020 election outcome after Joe Biden was elected.
“I knew Trump pressured Mike Pence to break the law, I just didn’t know how many times he did it,” Kimmel said.
He added, “There were meetings, phone calls, text messages. Mike Pence was basically Trump’s Baby Reindeer,” referring to the award-winning Netflix show about a man dealing with a female stalker.
Kimmel pointed to one conversation featured in the report where Trump once again asked him for help when the former VP called to wish him a merry Christmas. “Pence emphatically responded, ‘You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome,’” the report reads.
“Can you imagine calling a guy to wish a merry Christmas and he’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, I need you to commit some treason for me,’” Kimmel joked.
He continued, “Benedict Arnold was relentless with Mike Pence. And Pence tried everything to steer him right he tried to convince him to run again in four years.”
Pence may not be running for office again this time, but J.D. Vance will soon understand what the former VP went through. Kimmel even expressed some sympathy for Vance during a recent broadcast.
He pointed out that Vance once called Trump a “reprehensible idiot who shouldn’t be president” but is still standing beside him and defending him ahead of the election.
“In some ways you kind of feel sympathy for J.D. Vance having to defend Donald Trump who he himself openly denounced,” Kimmel said. “It’s kind of like being Diddy’s defense attorney.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live airs on weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on ABC.
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