“The Each day Present” host Jordan Klepper couldn’t imagine that President Donald Trump was indicting, of all folks, former FBI Director James Comey asking, “How are you going to go after a man who performed a key function in you successful the election?”
“I don’t know what’s worse, Donald Trump weaponizing the Justice Division or the truth that he’s doing it to go after James Comey,” Klepper started on Thursday evening’s episode of “The Each day Present.” “I imply, Trump, he’s the dude who received you elected president. Keep in mind, he introduced a number of days earlier than Election Day that he was investigating Hillary for her electronic mail server. And America was like, we are able to’t have a president with such disrespect for correct process. Let’s elect Donald Trump as a substitute.”
Earlier Thursday, Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on one depend for giving a false assertion and on one depend of obstruction of justice. Each expenses had been associated to his September 2020 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The previous FBI director is the primary senior authorities official, who investigated Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign over attainable ties to Russia, to face federal expenses.
“How are you going to go after a man who performed a key function in you successful the election?” Klepper requested. “What’s subsequent? Are you going to go after podcast with names like ‘The Chode Kings’ or ‘Roiding Out with the Jizz Brothers?’ […] Look, now, despite the fact that prosecutors say they don’t have a case towards Comey, Trump appears to have discovered a loophole to nominate a prosecutor who doesn’t care.”
In response to sources the president allegedly compelled out a U.S. legal professional he appointed in japanese Virginia and changed them with Lindsey Halligan, one in every of his private attorneys.
“Wow, wow, one in every of his private attorneys,” the host joked. “She will need to have a ton of expertise within the legal justice system. I guess she is aware of her means round a grand jury.” The present then cutaway to a media report that stated Halligan is an insurance coverage lawyer who has by no means prosecuted a legal case.
He continued: “However you bought to determine, if he’s trusting Lindsey Halligan to go after his political enemies, the vetting course of will need to have been extraordinarily thorough.” One other cutaway revealed that she informed the Washington Submit that she ended up
on Trump’s authorized workforce after displaying up at one in every of his golf occasions in a swimsuit and was employed a number of weeks later. The legal professional was additionally reported to be a former contestant in Miss Colorado USA.
“That is all beginning to make sense, although. When Trump hires folks, they’re
both magnificence queens or the ugliest bathroom creatures on the planet,” Klepper stated. “So the dangerous information is, Trump continues to nominate folks to positions which are
fully unqualified for. However the excellent news is, Trump continues to nominate folks to positions they’re fully unqualified for. In different phrases, don’t fear, James Comey. You don’t should learn to make rest room hooch simply but.
You possibly can watch the complete “Each day Present” monologue within the video above.
