Why Stephen Colbert Didn’t Watch Republican Convention: “Lies Stick To Your Soul Like Hot Tar”

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorStephen Colbert got a scoop tonight for his CBS late-night show. Veteran journalist and Rage author Bob Woodward brought along what he calls a “quite revealing” exclusive recording of President Donald Trump from five months ago saying of the coronavirus, “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it.”Woodward tells Colbert and us that the recording was made April 13 during a call made from the Oval Office.

Also Read: Trump Tells Bob Woodward He Intentionally Downplayed Danger of COVID-19He went on, “Members of Donald Trump’s staff knew in January that a plague was coming to infect America, that half a million Americans could die, that millions more would likely lose their jobs, that the economy would be ravaged and that those staff members had a responsibility to warn him — and they did — but Donald Trump chose instead to lie to you and to lie to your family and to lie to over 300 million

The POTUS’ younger daughter, Tiffany Trump accused the Democratic candidate of lying and asked him to ‘stop’ in a new post on social media. However, she got a lot of responses from online users who reminded her how much Donald Trump has lied throughout his career.

Tiffany Trump, 26, got the attention of many Twitter users on Aug. 31 when she asked Joe Biden, 77, to “stop lying” in a tweet. The daughter of President Donald Trump, 74, didn’t mention exactly what she was referring to but her words were enough to prove she’s not a fan of the Democratic politician going against her dad in the November presidential election. “Please stop lying Joe. You may think we are too ignorant to see through the lies- but God knows the truth,” she wrote in the tweet.

Leonard Cohen’s estate said it is exploring legal action following the unauthorised use of the revered singer-songwriter’s music at the Republican National Convention.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump’s acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House capped a week of moments that likely will be a lasting legacy of the 2020 Republican National Convention: The blurred lines it created between official government and partisan business.The convention showed Trump’s determination to shatter norms for the purpose of reality TV like stunts and dramatic backdrops, even if it already has yielded ethics complaints.From the standpoint of using the White House as a set, it

Of course he had to have a crowd. The definitive image of the fourth and final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was President Donald Trump standing at the White House’s South Lawn in front of 1,500 adoring loyalists, packed tightly together, mostly without masks.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Trump said he didn’t like POW’s who were captured, implied my father was burning in hell after he died and constantly trashed him while he was fighting brain cancer. This is how they have lost all decent people.” Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programsUp-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming seriesPandemic-proof vs.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump will deliver scathing criticism of Joe Biden in his Republican National Convention acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House. That’s a given.The bigger question is whether Trump will address the unfolding crisis in Kenosha, WI, and how he frames the police shooting death of Jacob Blake.

Ted Johnson As Donald Trump prepares to give a norm-shattering acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, government watchdogs are filing ethics complaints alleging that other moments from the Republican National Convention may have been in violation of a key ethics law.On Thursday, Citzens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington requested a investigation of Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for his participation in a convention moment on Tuesday, a

Ted Johnson Kamala Harris added her voice to the effort by Democrats to rebut Donald Trump’s expected attacks in his acceptance speech on Thursday, as she blasted the Republican Convention week as an exercise in trying to give the president an ego stroke.“Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose, to soothe Donald Trump’s ego, to make him feel good,” she said in

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word.As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump’s vice president seemed like an afterthought on Wednesday as the boss came onstage to upstage him without uttering a word.Speaking live to a small audience at Fort McHenry in

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten Kellyanne Conway, the soon-to-depart senior adviser to President Donald Trump, addressed the Republican Convention by praising her boss for putting women in senior leadership positions.“President Trump helped me shatter a barrier in the world of politics, by empowering me to manage his campaign to successful conclusion,” she said in her speech from the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.He said that Trump “has elevated women to senior positions in business and in

Republican National Convention continued on Tuesday night with addresses from Vice President Mike Pence, first lady Melania Trump, and two of Donald Trump's adult children, to name a few. Late-night TV shows also continued their coverage of the event, particularly The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the latter of which has been airing live after each night of the RNC and the DNC.

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A diverse collection of Donald Trump's allies — his family, swing-state farmers and even a convicted bank robber — cast the president as the best hope for America's future Tuesday night as Republicans embraced a more optimistic tone on the second night of their scaled-down national convention.

Stephen Colbert marked night one of the Republican National Convention on “The Late Show” by comparing Donald Trump to Thanos in an “Avengers” parody skit.

The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention offered Stephen Colbert ample material for his live, post-show analysis on Monday. During his first 2020 RNC-focused show monologue, The Late Show host immediately dug into some of the night's instant memes, including Kimberly Guilfoyle's impassioned performance, Donald Trump, Jr.'s appearance and Rep.

Also Read: People Want to Know Why Don Jr. Looked Like That at the RNCWe got Ivanka Trump as a member of Thanos’s Black Hand, Proxima Midnight, and Jared Kushner as Corvus Glaive, Midnight’s lover.

To hear the Laura Ingrahams and Jeanine Pirros of the world tell it, last week the Democrats held a convention marked by darkness and pessimism, a monomaniacal four-day rant about Donald Trump in which their own candidate, Joe Biden in case you've already forgotten, was defined only by his not being Donald Trump.