In its first Late show The new year’s monologue, Stephen Colbert went all-in on President Donald Trump’s not-so-“perfect” phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“Happy New Year! 2020 is over!” Colbert began. “All that evil is finally over and we are on a fresh start… with a raging pandemic and a president trying to steal the election. As it turns out, 2020 is dropping some bonus tracks. “
That quickly brought him to that “overwhelming” phone call urging viewers to “hang on” for what he described as “if Watergate and the Ukrainian scandal had a baby they had taken on the Access Hollywood bus.”
After playing the clip where Trump said he just wants Georgia to “find” 11,780 votes, Colbert replied, “That’s all he wants! He just wants them to find exactly how many votes he needs to win with one. There is nothing strange about that! “
“If he wants to steal an election, he really doesn’t have to sound like your grandpa complaining about his phone,” the host added. “There used to be a button at the bottom, now it uses my face. What have they done with the button? Did they hide it with the ballots in those voting machines? I hope they don’t hide my face! ”
Later, during his interview with Stacey Abrams On Tuesday’s Senate layoffs, Colbert asked her what she thought about her name being mentioned several times during Trump’s call, including Trump’s suggestion that she is “smiling” at Raffensperger.
“I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say I’m thinking about them,” Abrams told him. ‘I’m concentrating on winning this election. They are not my problem. “
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