Watch John Oliver delve into President Trump’s political “sequel,” the Ukraine scandal, on LastWeekTonight
, which they claimed exonerated him. “Except when you read the account, it emphatically does not do that,” Oliver said. “Because Trump explicitly asks for Biden to be investigated and follows it by saying, ‘I will have [Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani] give you a call … and I am also going to have [Attorney General William Barr] call and we will get to the bottom of it.'”
“It’s frankly impressive just how thorough that abusive power is,” Oliver continued. “He’s looping in both someone so involved in the government they should be nowhere near this kind of petty dirt and someone so involved in petty dirt they should be nowhere near the government.”, which alleged that White House officials attempted to cover their tracks by storing notes for the call on a code-word-level computer system used for classified information.
“To recap here: It seems the president pressured a foreign head of state to investigate his political rival, then his staff tried to cover it up, and perhaps the most shocking part of all this is it might actually hurt him,” the host noted. “And I know that you’re probably thinking right now, ‘No, it won’t, you fucking idiot. Nothing Trump does ever affects him.’ And I do get that. That has clearly been true. Until, maybe, now.”against Trump, with some Republicans even expressing concern.
“The president’s done so many terrible things — why does this one count?” Oliver asked. “Unlike the Mueller report’s legalistic descriptions of obstruction of justice, Trump pressuring Ukraine to get dirt on his opponent and then hiding the conversation is easy to understand. It’s just gettable. You don’t need to know any more than that to know it’s something presidents should absolutely not be able to do.
“When you put all of that together,” he continued, “this particular Trump scandal does start to feel a little different — [like] something that is absolutely meriting of
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