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On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah was back to business dissecting the latest in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Monday’s arguments by Trump’s lawyers offered a defense that, said Noah, “basically boils down to this: one, this is just a political attack
On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah was back to business dissecting the latest in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Monday’s arguments by Trump’s lawyers offered a defense that, said Noah, “basically boils down to this: one, this is just a political attack
by the Democrats. Two, Trump did nothing wrong, and three, there are no firsthand witnesses who spoke to Trump about a quid pro quo.”
The last point “is pretty ballsy”, said Noah, “because how are you gonna complain about having no eyewitnesses when you’re the ones blocking the eyewitnesses?” You can’t have it both ways, Noah argued.
“It’s like if you’re a vegan, you can’t complain about all the chickpeas in your life. You chose that chickpea life.”
The witnesses question is further complicated by news this weekend that Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, will release a book claiming Trump personally told him to withhold aid to Ukraine until he got
information on Joe Biden – “which is the whole thing,” said Noah. “This is the heart of the entire impeachment thing. So I don’t know how Senate Republicans can justify not hearing from both sides.
“Imagine, an eyewitness to a murder wanted to testify and the judge just refused
“Imagine, an eyewitness to a murder wanted to testify and the judge just refused
On Late Night, Seth Meyers ticked through the list of evidence against Trump that has emerged since the impeachment trial. “You’ve got to give Trump credit,” said Meyers. “One crime isn’t enough for him.
He’s always gotta do like five at once. He’s like a guy who steals a camcorder, sneaks into a movie theater without paying, illegally records and then sells the bootleg
DVDs on the street, gets arrested, busts out of jail, and then holds a screening of the movie in a house he broke into.”
For example, Meyers said, Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who Trump has claimed not to know, brought receipts attesting to Trump’s knowledge of the removal of US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in a deal for dirt on Biden.
Parnas handed the US attorney’s office in New York secret taped footage of Trump telling Parnas to “get rid of her”, about Yovanovitch. “Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it.”
“How is it possible that so many people have secret recordings of the president?” Meyers wondered. “I mean, this idiot has had more microphones and hidden cameras on him than Jim Carrey in the Truman Show.”
Bolton’s book and Parnas’s receipts demonstrate “why it’s so crucial that the Senate vote to allow new evidence to be considered in the impeachment trial”, Meyers concluded, “because almost every day new evidence emerges”.
