The U.S. Secret Service has released some details about comedian John Mulani’s investigation into jokes he made about Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” last year.
Mulani was the first to announce that “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by the Secret Service. He was examined during an appearance on.
“In February, I made a joke that wasn’t about Donald Trump,” the comedian explained at the time. “The joke was how it was a leap year and the leap year was started by Julius Caesar to improve the calendar, and the other thing that happened to Caesar was that he was stabbed to death by a mob of senators because he went insane. And I said That’s the decent thing to do, and it should end there. ”
The Freedom Information Act request by the AP showed through the file that Mulani was not joking when he said he was the subject of an investigation. The bureau contacted NBC but did not interview the comedian for questioning, which found no malpractice.
The joke was made during Mulani’s inauguration during the “Saturday Night Live” broadcast on February 29, 2020.
“The other thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful lunatic that all the senators grabbed knives, and they killed him. It would be an interesting thing if we brought him back now,” Mulan told the audience laughing. During his monologue.
John Mulleny said he was investigated by the Secret Service through a joke ‘which is not about Donald Trump’.
John Mulane made a joke on ‘Saturday Night Live’, which was investigated by the Secret Service.
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The Secret Service recorded other comments during the monologue, including: “I asked my lawyer if I could make this joke, he said, let me call another lawyer, and that lawyer said yes, I don’t care about politics. , But I don’t like Founding Father very much … I hate when people are like, God never made such a big group of men like Founding Father, yes, ’92 Bulls …. that’s a perfect metaphor for the United States “When I was a boy, the United States was like Michael Jordan in 1992. Now the United States would like him like Michael Jordan.”
Mulani’s “SNL.” Two days after the monologue, law enforcement officials contacted Thomas McCarthy, NBC Universal’s global chief security officer and senior vice president, to express the agency’s willingness to discuss the joke with the comedian’s attorneys.
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The Secret Service file includes Brett Bartbart’s report, “SNL: John Mulay’s jokes that senators want Julius Caesar like Stud Trump.” Mullen’s investigation opened in March and closed in December, five days after comedian Kimmel spoke about the situation on the show.
The Secret Service files that Mulani did not directly threaten Trump.
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“The person I was investigating understood very well that the joke had nothing to do with Donald Trump because it was an elliptical reference to him,” Mulan told Kimmel. “I didn’t say anything about it. In terms of risk assessment, no one who has ever looked at me thought I noticed one.”
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He added: “I said I’ve been joking about it since 2007, so I’ve been joking about it for 13 years,” Mulane said. “They said if it’s a joke, I’ll be cleared by the Secret Service.”
The Associated Press contributes to this report.
