Jimmy Kimmel has found one clear winner in this week’s news cycle: Hillary Clinton, whose 2016 presidential campaign was plagued with controversy around her use of a private email server while heading up the State Department.
In his monologue Tuesday, Kimmel pointed out that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who had unwittingly texted secret war plans to a journalist, had been Clinton’s biggest critic back in 2016.
Kimmel showed a 2016 Fox News clip of Hegseth declaring, “If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now for what has been done.”
In the clip, Hegseth argued further, “The assumption is, in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for, and likelihood, that foreign governments are targeting those accounts and gathering intelligence from them.”
“Very well said,” Kimmel replied. “Case closed.”
He added, “I bet Hillary is walking around the woods laughing her ass off today. ‘Lock ‘em up!‘”
In response to the security scandal on Monday evening, Hillary Clinton posted on X, “You have got to be kidding me,” with a side-eye emoji.
Continuing his coverage of the group chat scandal, Kimmel explained, “It just so happened that the Senate Intelligence Committee had a hearing scheduled for today, which meant the Democrats got to grill several of the individuals who were on the chat.”
He joked, “It was like having to take a road trip with your mom the day after she caught you masturbating.”
Kimmel also made fun of Donald Trump for refusing to fire anyone for the leak.
“What happened to this guy?” Kimmel asked. “He fired Meatloaf for less than this.”
Kimmel joked, “Firing used to be his favorite thing. It’s kind of sad. He’s like an old dog that doesn’t chase the ball anymore.”
