Comedian Jon Stewart has been accused of benefiting greatly by overinflating the value of his New York City penthouse.
Stewart reportedly sold the penthouse in 2014 for 829 percent more than the appraised market value.
The New York Post obtained appraisal documents that show a market value of just under $1.9 million for the property at the time.
Stewart, however, managed to sell the duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million.
According to the Post, “the appraiser’s actual valuation was even lower, at $847,174.”
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Jon Stewart’s house
The details of the sale of Jon Stewart’s penthouse have been known for some time. And anyone interested could easily have obtained the aldermen’s records from 2014.
But what prompted the information to come to light was The daily show the host’s recent insistence that Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial demonstrated that he left victims in his wake by overinflating property values.
Stewart played a clip of Shark tank star Kevin O’Leary insists that the New York AG prosecuted Trump using an archaic law despite the fact that “there were no victims, no damages, no complaints.”
Stewart, however, insists otherwise.
For those who didn’t see what Jon Stewart said, here it is. But keep in mind that he has now been found to have overvalued his New York home by 829% after denouncing Trump’s civil suit as “not without victims.” WATCH and then read his story here @nypost: https://t.co/ebZz6E5weS pic.twitter.com/n5av29AZNW
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“How is he (O’Leary) not so angry about overstatements in the real world?” He said. Stewart also used the example of him selling Trump’s penthouse to naive viewers.
“Because they are not victimless crimes,” he concludes.
Hypocrisy, party of one.
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Daily show The host returns fire
Without the help of cut-and-paste video clips, which his show is known for (they present out-of-context clips as news, then say, “Hey, we’re just a comedy,” while fans actually get their current events information from them ), Jon Stewart’s response to the report didn’t go over well.
Stewart wrote about X with all the fervor of a disheveled AOC late to her latest therapy session. Roping in other irrelevant cases: silence about money, insurrection! – To suggest that he is not as bad as Trump.
“OH MY GOD!! I got caught doing anything remotely similar to Trump! I guess all I have to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified documents, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money, grab pussies, discriminate in housing, cheat in golf and foment insurrection and you will worship me!he said.
Keep shooting until something happens, Jon.
This is a guy the left reveres as an intellectual. They also see it as fun. Yet, as a defense, he’s giving off serious Rashida Tlaib “impeach the mother *****” vibes.
Obviously, excessive inflation of values is not an equal comparison. But the fact that Stewart demonstrated an inability to control his emotions in his defense of him isn’t even an exemption.
O’Leary said in his interview that the practice of trying to sell properties at higher prices is basically like breathing in real estate.
“For the fact that he was found guilty, you might as well find every real estate developer on Earth guilty,” O’Leary told the New York Post. “I don’t understand where anyone got hurt… What builder doesn’t ask the highest price for any building he built?”
Of course, Jon Stewart did just that.
