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The Time Jimmy Kimmel Tricked People Into Believing Christopher Columbus Is Trump’s Next Supreme Court Pick

#Kimmel, #LieWitnessNews - Christopher Columbus Supreme Court Edition Columbus Day , a national holiday that most decent-minded people would like effectively canceled and replaced with  Indigenous Peoples Day  since Christopher Columbus was a genocide-committing monster. But for now it is what it is, so in honor of the most terrible of holidays (right behind April Fool’s Day),  Jimmy Kimmel  did a Lie Witness News segment in which he asked people on the street what they thought of President Donald Trump’s controversial next Supreme Court pick, wait for it … Christopher Columbus. Given Trump’s  apparent admiration for the guy , if somehow it were possible that the science could mine DNA and bring Columbus back to life to sit on the highest court in the land, you know he’d probably be all in for that. But even Trump surely knows that Christopher Columbus is no longer alive and therefore not eligible for the Supreme Court. A few of the people intervi...

Los Angeles celebrated inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day

Christopher Columbus was the guest of dishonor at this party. Away from the revelers, a statue of the famous explorer was kept hidden behind a black box in   downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park, decorated with an altar celebrating native people. Monday marked the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day in Los Angeles,  a year after the county Board of Supervisors voted to reimagine Columbus Day. The covered statue included a note signed by several county organizations indicating the monument will be removed. “As the City Council member who works with the county supervisor, take my word for it: The statue is on its way out,” said Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who is of Native American descent and  pushed the Los Angeles City Council last year to rename Columbus Day. Across the street from the main festivities of the daylong celebration, Soraya Medina, whose ancestors are part of the Caribbean’s Taino tribe, helped assemble the altar. She stood by the Columbus s...