Which came first –– 60 Minutes or Jon Stewart?
I finally obtained Mark Brnovich's last several calendars and answer a months-long question.
For months now people have been wondering which interview former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich did first.
Was it with 60 Minutes when he said the ridiculous election claims he was tasked with investigating and simultaneously keeping alive with his kowtowing were “horseshit?” Or was is the interview with Jon Stewart when he doubled down on his own “horseshit” investigation where it was later revealed that he kept details private that would have put to rest many of the so-called “horseshit” claims by his own words.
Based on his calendars between September and December of 2022, Brnovich interviewed with Stewart first. Maybe it was that hardcore pushback from the former The Daily Show host that got him to come back down to reality for a bit during his 60 Minutes discussion. Regardless his actions still raise some questions about his own integrity amid at least 18 State Bar complaints due to the aforementioned records concealment.
Brnovich was previously viewed as principled, but that entirely went out the door faster than Jazz getting tossed from the Fresh Prince house, starting with his announcement he was running for U.S. Senate; a race where he finished third in the Republican primary. That should prove none of his efforts were even close to being worth it.
He’s no longer in office. He’s viewed not only as a disgraced politician by many from both parties (albeit for vastly different reasons) but also a disgraced attorney who has already entered in a diversion agreement with the State Bar for other reasons.
Brnovich spoke with 60 Minutes on Sept 9 in the middle of a regular day for him as attorney general interviewing with news outlets and not much else. Like his calendar shows from August.
He spoke to them again for an hour on Sept 28 and then interviewed for three hours on Oct 12. (The news show then got two hours worth of B-roll the following morning.) In the 60 Minutes interview that aired in late-October, Brnovich not only said the election claims he was supposedly looking into were “horseshit,” but that he “deal[s] in facts and evidence, and I’m not like the clowns that throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks.”
Which is really fucking ironic given he was found to have shielded actual facts and evidence in his agency’s investigation report.1
Brnovich’s embarrassing discussion with Jon Stewart, who now hosts The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+, before 60 Minutes, happened on Sept 26 (two weeks before his official 60 Minutes talk) and it aired on Oct 27.
Stewart took him to task for continuing to double down on investigating what Brnovich later called “horseshit” claims of election fraud. The former respected AG resulted to the lazy excuse of “millions of people, not only in Arizona, but people throughout this country, that think the election was stolen.”
Stewart’s response?
“There’s people who believe in angels, but that doesn’t mean you launch an investigation that angels changed ballots.”
It’d be curious if Brnovich ever comes clean about his role in keeping the “horseshit” alive and well as long as he did with nothing to show for it.
The show may be called “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” but Brnovich should be looking at himself in the mirror like:
Check out Brnovich’s full calendars here.
t’s important to note we likely would not have known any of this had Attorney General Kris Mayes lost her razor-thin election to Abe Hamadeh who is still trying to navigate his way around a court room over his defeat. Hamadeh bought into stolen election conspiracies tenfold over Brnovich and would have likely buried everything he could.