To senators now saying he’s learned his lesson and “will go through the proper channels next time (as Iowa senator Joni Ernst claimed), Colbert countered: “The only lesson Trump ever learns is that he gets away with everything.
Multiple bankruptcies? Nothing. Multiple sexual assault accusations – nothing. He’s in perfect health despite eating like a rat behind the Bob’s Big Boy.”
Why, Colbert asked, was Romney the only Repub willing to acquit? “I take an oath before God as enormously consequential,” Romney, who is devoutly Mormon, said in his speech, explaining that he couldn’t live with his conscience if he didn’t uphold his oath to be an impartial juror
Colbert explained his strong personal reaction: “Hearing Mitt Romney take his oath to God seriously was like finding water in the desert. Because we know Republicans are lying when they say that Trump didn’t do anything wrong, or that maybe he did but he shouldn’t be removed.”
Lots of Republicans are horrified by Trump, he said, “and want something, someone to do something to stop him, but they don’t have the balls to say that out loud when it matters.
“That’s why an oath is important,” said Colbert. “When you take an oath, you can’t think one thing and say another.”
Colbert concluded by thanking Mitt Romney “for being honest, for not lying to us or to himself, for serving the constitution rather than that monstrous child in the White House”.
