Donald Trump’s outrageous, sad, and dangerous statements made in the White House briefing room on Thursday night have left us in some kind of obese turtle shellshock. Standing at the podium, the president repeated baseless, false claims of election fraud as Joe Biden’s standing in key battleground states continued to improve as the vote count continued.
Processing these feelings on The Late Show was host Stephen Colbert, who donned a sombre all-black ensemble to deliver an impassioned, emotional monologue on Thursday night’s show, blasting Trump for his desperate attacks on democracy.
“The president came out into the White House briefing room and lied for 15 minutes,” said Colbert. “Just nonsensical stuff about illegal vote dumps and corrupt election officials and secret Democratic counting cabals, and I don’t know, longform birth certificates, probably. It’s all the same. And if you did not know that Joe Biden was getting close to 270, Donald Trump just provided all the proof you will ever need.” Read more…
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