Stephen Colbert skewers Trump with a devastating burn during impeachment update

Oof.
By Sam Haysom  on 
Stephen Colbert skewers Trump with a devastating burn during impeachment update
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The Late Show may have paused for Thanksgiving, but impeachment news never sleeps.

In the clip above, Stephen Colbert returns with an update – using the intelligence committee's impeachment report as a launching platform for a particularly brutal burn.

"Before the intelligence committee released their report, the GOP issued their own prebuttal, in which they concluded that Trump was acting on genuine and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine," says Colbert. "Yes, because the two words everyone uses to describe Donald Trump are 'genuine' and 'reasonable.' Right after 'athletic' and 'monogamous.'

Oof.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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