Kimmel Jokes Republicans Who Turned on Trump Are ‘in the Witness Protection Party’ (Video)

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Today was the last of the Jan. 6 hearings before the mid-term elections — which means, depending on how things go, they could be the last Jan.

6 hearings, period. Either way, Jimmy Kimmel talked at length about them in his monologue on Thursday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”Running down the news that came out of the hearings, Kimmel said “a lot of the evidence in these hearings came from Trump’s inner circle.

This is like if OJ had been turned in by his gloves. These are his people.”“Chairman of the committee started by pointing out that almost all the evidence came from Republicans, not Democrats, and that the people who stopped Trump from trying to steal the election, like Mike Pence and all those who repeatedly told him the election wasn’t rigged, are also Republican.

Or should I say were Republican. Now they’re in the Witness Protection Party,” he joked.“But we learned today that Trump knew the election wasn’t stolen and even told Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, that he didn’t want anyone to know he lost because it was embarrassing to him,” KImmel continued. “But is that more embarrassing than continuing to say you won an election two years after you lost that election?”Kimmel brought up the footage of leading Democrats Chuck Schumer, Steny Hoyer, and Nancy Pelosi hiding from the attackers during the Jan.