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Jon Stewart is a comedian and host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

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Jon Stewart
stated on July 16, 2024 in TV appearance:

Milwaukee's Marcus Performing Arts Center – where 'The Daily Show' had been scheduled – “was originally located in the ‘soft perimeter,’ they called it, security-wise” but “was shifted, understandably so, to the ‘hard perimeter.’”

By Madeline Heim • July 17, 2024
Jon Stewart
stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview on "The Daily Show":

The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 23, 2015
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2013

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