On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert celebrated “impeachment eve” with a close reading of Trump’s letter to Pelosi.
Prior to Tuesday, Trump had been relatively quiet about impeachment, Colbert said, “but the pressure clearly was building under the surface because this afternoon, the lid blew off Mt St Yellin’. The eruption came in the form of a six-page shriek addressed to Nancy Pelosi”.
The letter was full of anger toward Pelosi, including some choice quotes such as: “Your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America’s founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build.”
“Yes,” Colbert responded, “a nation built on the belief that powerful white men face no consequences whatsoever.”
Colbert called the letter “a disorienting mishmash of dry legal language mixed in with Trump’s signature angry word smoothies.
Colbert called the letter “a disorienting mishmash of dry legal language mixed in with Trump’s signature angry word smoothies.
For example: ‘the articles of impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence … You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!’”
“Happy now, Nancy?” Colbert asked. “You’ve cheapened something very ugly. That goes against everything Trump stands for – making very ugly things extremely expensive.”
🍊also blamed the impeachment process on Democrats’ bitterness from the election loss in 2016 and accused Pelosi of viewing “democracy as your enemy!”
Colbert, imitating the president, clarified: “Whereas I view democracy as a friend with benefits, because under me democracy is so screwed.”
Trump also wrote that “more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials”.
“You know what? I agree with the president on this one,” Colbert said. “Fair is fair – we should throw him in the river.”
“You know what? I agree with the president on this one,” Colbert said. “Fair is fair – we should throw him in the river.”
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he took “zero” responsibility for impeachment, which means, according to Colbert, “he takes foreign assistance, he takes daddy’s handouts, he takes a handful of any women who wanders into the grope zone, but he draws the line at responsibility
