John Oliver can’t stop winning Emmys.
15.08.2022 - 08:31 / deadline.com
John Oliver recapped another busy week in politics on HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight. Although President Joe Biden’s administration scored huge with the Inflation Reduction Act passing in Congress, it was the FBI raiding Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort that got the most attention.
The late-night host fired off his first segment poking fun at Trump’s “characteristic restraint” in his response to the FBI seizing documents from his home.
In a statement, Trump said that Mar-a-Lago was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents” and added, “they even broke into my safe.”
Oliver had a laugh at Trump’s comment about his safe being opened during an investigation and quipped that the only way the FBI agents would’ve not gotten into his safe is if the words “No FBI Allowed” were printed in front.
Although there’s still a lot that is not known about the search in Trump’s home, Oliver took a swipe at Fox News and some vocal Republicans for trying to play down the investigation.
“I am not going to speculate or jump to conclusions here because there is still so much that we don’t know,” he said. “Many seem more than happy to do that this week, with multiple Republicans liking the FBI to the Gestapo, Fox News trolling through the Facebook feed of the judge who approved the warrant and showing a meme of his face on Jeffrey Epstein’s body, and still others, candidly minimizing what Trump may have done.”
Oliver ended the segment by saying that he would “not be so quick to assume the most cautious [Attorney General] the U.S. has had for a while” in taking the step of sending the FBI to an ex-president’s house “if he didn’t think it was absolutely necessary.”
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retrieved classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate.During an appearance on CNN, host Don Lemon quoted Cohen as previously saying that “with the walls closing in around [Trump], his next move is to find a scapegoat.” Asked to elaborate on what he meant, Cohen was happy to oblige.“I believe the next scapegoat is going to be Rudy-Colludi Giuliani,” the attorney said. “Everybody likes a bargain, but Donald Trump really likes a bargain, and I believe that Rudy is like a BOGO — buy one get one half-off.”Cohen added that he thinks Trump and his allies are prepared to “throw [Giuliani] under the bus” for both the FBI’s investigation of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and the current investigation in Georgia related to whether or not the former president violated the law in an effort to flip the 2020 election results.“They’re just gonna keep pointing the finger,” Cohen said.Lemon and Cohen also discussed the number of excuses that Trump has given so far for the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
said Monday morning that former President Donald Trump should call “for an end to the violent rhetoric” against the FBI.“With all of these threats going around, it would ultimately be great if the former president, who has always been a great supporter of law enforcement and who has posed with 1000 police departments coast to coast,” Doocy said on “Fox & Friends,” “it would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement and, in particular, the FBI that was just doing their job.”The plea comes just a day after Trump attacked the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in a frenzy on Truth Social, a social media app backed by his media and technology company. In the messages, the former president complained that “the whole World was watching as the FBI rummaged through the house, including the former First Lady’s closets (and clothing!), alone and unchecked,” and repeated the unsubstantiated claim that the FBI planted information.In response, Doocy called for a de-escalation of the threats directed at federal law enforcement as a result of the discontent felt by many supporters of the former president.“It would be great for everybody to tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do,” Doocy said.
John Oliver had a pretty good laugh at GOP Rep. Mike Turner on Sunday night, after the Ohio representative seemed to be having a physical reluctance to defend Donald Trump over the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago last week, insisting that “classified” doesn’t always actually mean “classified.”“I am not going to speculate or jump to conclusions here, because there is still so much that we don’t know,” Oliver noted.
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raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property during Thursday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment, which was guest hosted by Brian Kilmeade.The image contains a superimposed head of Judge Bruce Reinhart attached to the body of Jeffrey Epstein, with Ghislaine Maxwell massaging Epstein’s feet.“This is the judge in charge of the, of the, of the, um, as you know, of the warrant,” Kilmeade said, repeating “of the uh” four times before continuing to his next thought. “We’ll see if he’s going to release it next — he likes Oreos and whiskey.”The bogus photo that Fox aired came from an image of Epstein getting a foot massage from Ghislaine Maxwell, where the altered pic of the judge was Photoshopped.The actual photo was released publicly during Maxwell’s trial.
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The FBI descending on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, searching it and removing at least a dozen boxes on Monday, continued to fascinate “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during his second-to-last show of the week.On Thursday, Colbert once again dove into the topic that has been featured in at least three of his monologues so far.“As we continue to learn more details about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, it does not look good for former president Velveeta Voldemort,” Colbert said, opening his show with his latest nickname for Trump.“The former president and his minions have tried to play the victim card here saying, ‘Why he’s just a simple country club owner, and that this whole investigation is a nothing burger,’” Colbert said, doing a slightly Southern accent. “But it’s beginning to look like the investigation is a ‘Something Royale with Cheese.’ Now I’m not gonna get my hopes up.
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