Trump is sitting through his second impeachment trial, but more importantly, who remembers first hearing about the Chewbacca Defence in that episode of South Park?

And subsequently confusing it with the real life events? Yeah nah not us…

Anyways, now that the second Trump impeachment trial is underway, the Chewbacca Defence is back making headlines.

For context, Donald Trump’s lawyer, one Bruce Castor Jr., has made his defence on behalf of Trump – and many, many people are confused about what he was actually on about throughout the whole 48-minute long ordeal.

Naturally, Twitter users were taking the piss.

And then the magic happened: the internet realised this is basically a real-life interpretation of that South Park episode lampooning the O.J. Simpson murder trial, where the Chewbacca Defence was employed in for real – a legal strategy designed to confuse the jury.

In the episode of South Park, Johnnie Cochran is constructing the defence of a record company in question. Then out of nowhere he begins ranting about Chewbacca, yes the Star Wars character.

“Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending a major record company, and I’m talking about Chewbacca!”

Cochran continues, “Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defence rests.”

And this, is the level of randomness people are deducing from Trump’s defence lawyer. Classic.

Relive the South Park Chewbacca Defence episode:

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