Watch: Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Trump Fans' Willingness to Ignore His Most Grotesque Lies

Election '16

Jimmy Kimmel's team is back on the street, interviewing actual Trump supporters, in uber-liberal Los Angeles no less.


Unlike every other candidate in recent history before him, Donald Trump refuses to release his tax returns, citing an audit as grounds for postponing their release. Like many Americans, Kimmel eagerly anticipates the release of Trump's tax returns, but realizes they might not matter much to actual Trump supporters. Or do they? 

What if Trump wrote off his marriages as “entertainment costs,” listed his primary occupation as “farmer" or admitted his net worth was a mere $42,000 instead of $10 billion? Kimmel's team prepared their own fake documents, and read the previous lies to Trump supporters as if they were true. After all, there's no telling what the unreleased tax returns actually say.  

But Trump supporters were willing to forgive the most outlandish statements. 

"You know, we all kind of fib a little bit, but you know what?" one woman answered when asked about her unrelenting support for the nominee.

You know what? Some lies should shock us, expecially when they're presented as facts from the person seeking the highest office in the country. 

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