CBS Vs. Trump Flashback: Seven Times ‘The Good Fight' Trashed 45-47
In all six seasons of The Good Fight, creators Robert and Michelle King never passed up a chance to weave one of Trump's many scandals into the narrative, from the infamous pee tape episode to accusations that he raped an underage girl.
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The result was unmerciful but gloriously funny, especially when Christine Baranski's liberal Diane Lockhart hallucinated news reports about Trump keeping a potbellied pig in the White House map room. (The ol' girl was so verklempt over the state of the world, she started to microdose to make it through her days).
Shari Redstone's Viacom didn't reunite with CBS until 2019 but she still had financial control of CBS and subsequently CBS All Access (which has since become Paramount+). Anyway, it's nice to remember that, once upon a time, the company really didn't give a sh*t about pissing off 45-47.
Here are some of the more memorable moments:
Reddick, Boseman represents a TV writer whose episode for a Law & Order-type show was pulled by the network because it mirrored real-life accusations against Trump that he assaulted a 13-year-old girl.
A DNC consultant played by Margo Martindale approaches Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart to develop an impeachment strategy against Trump. (All episodes from season 2 were chronologically based on Trump's days in the White House.)
While microdosing, Diane hallucinates a news story about Trump bringing goats to the European Summit.
A Russian woman facing deportation seeks legal help from Diane after appearing on the pee tape at the Moscow Ritz with Trump.
Diane is urged to join a women's resistance group to 'take the fight to Trump.'
The firm is asked to take on a class action suit against a voting machine manufacturer after a woman who supported Hillary Clinton realized her vote was changed to Trump on a paperless apparatus.
And then of course, there was this animated short from Jonathan Coulton and Head Gear that included the line, 'your tiny hands will scratch and claw but nobody's above the law.'
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