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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Stephen Colbert explains what a retweet actually is, because Trump doesn't seem to know

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Donald Trump has understandably copped a pile of condemnation for sharing a tweet by comedian Terrence K Williams with a conspiracy theory linking the Clintons to the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison over the weekend. As Seth Meyers earlier noted, imagine if FDR accused Herbert Hoover of being a lizard-alien?

So when Trump tried to deflect responsibility by saying the tweet "that wasn't from me, that was from him [Williams]" Stephen Colbert stepped in to explain to the Most Online President Ever why that's not kosher, as you would chastise a parent who shared a shitty meme.

"First of all: It was from you!," Colbert exclaimed. "A retweet is from you! That's how it works!" Read more...

More about Twitter, Stephen Colbert, Trump, Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and Conspiracy Theories

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