Jon Stewart Asks Whether Trump Will ‘Burn Our F**king Country Down for the Insurance Money’ as He Collects ‘Tributes’

EXCERPT:

STEWART: “It’s protection money. So, ultimately, at the end of this, does Trump burn our f**king country down for insurance money? Like, where are we headed? But the reason why the guy from ‘60 Minutes’ and the reason why the head of CBS News left is, it’s not even about the money, which I think is — they’ve said is upwards of, like, 50 million. Imagine paying $50 million for f**king nothing just to get somebody to approve a merger. A) it’s bribery, but B) the reason they all laughed is — part of the deal is they have to apologize. And in that moment, these people who have built careers on their excellence and their integrity had to look and go like, ‘All right, well, I hope I’ve done well enough that I can whether this, but there’s no fucking way that I’m going to apologize for doing my job the way it’s supposed to be done just because this one guy is offended by it. And ultimately, what an awful precedent that these media companies have set.”

(via Mediaite)