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Jon Stewart made ‘secret White House visits’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleComedian Jon Stewart was invited to the White House to meet with Obama in 2011 and February 2014, Politico reports.
Three former Obama aides confirm the visits.
“The White House itself was quite interested in at least explaining its side of the story to Jon Stewart,” Austan Goolsbee says, “up to and including the president.”
Ex-aide David Axelrod calls Stewart a “useful prod.”
“I can’t say that because Jon Stewart was unhappy policy changed. But I can say that he had forceful arguments, they were arguments that we knew would be heard and deserved to be answered,” David Axelrod says.
Obama has appeared on “The Daily Show” seven times.
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