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Monday, January 20, 2020

Stephen Colbert takes apart team Trump's legal arguments ahead of impeachment trial

Stephen Colbert takes apart team Trump's legal arguments ahead of impeachment trial

If having Rudy Giuliani as his personal attorney wasn't proof enough that Trump's not getting the best legal advice possible, dwell upon this clip from Monday night's episode of the Late Show. 

Ahead of the president's impeachment trial in the Senate, the House managers filed a brief calling Trump's conduct "the Framers' worst nightmare." Team Trump's response was to end the weekend insisting that "abuse of power" — one of the cited crimes in the articles of impeachment — isn't, like, technically a real crime or anything, so it's not impeachable.

"Yes it is!" Late Show host Stephen Colbert exclaims in Monday night's monologue. "It's the most powerful job in the world — that's why abuse of power is the thing that a president is not supposed to do." Read more...

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