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Stephen Colbert Blasts Trump for Using the Term ‘Spygate’

Stephen Colbert pointed out to President Trump that “spygate” has been used before.Credit...CBS

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President Trump on Wednesday continued his barrage of attacks on the F.B.I. and the special counsel, Robert Mueller. Trump has been suggesting over the past few days that the F.B.I. embedded a “spy” within his 2016 presidential campaign, but he has provided no evidence of this.

On Wednesday, he began using the term “spygate” to describe those accusations. Stephen Colbert said that Trump should pick a more original phrase, pointing out that spygate has been used before.

“(a) A criminal investigation is not spying. It should be ‘investigate-gate.’ And (b) Spygate has already been used — twice. Once to describe the public identification of Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. officer, and for the New England Patriots’ videotaping of New York Jets coaches’ signals. Well, as long as we’re just stealing other scandals’ names, from now on, Watergate is the fact that Trump can’t drink one-handed.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

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Trump sent out a tweet suggesting spygate represented a comeuppance for the F.B.I. — a suggestion Colbert called hard to justify.

“Donald Trump, you for one should not be talking about, ‘what goes around comes around.’ You are living proof karma does not exist.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of Trump for a different, pithier tweet he sent on Wednesday.

“Donald Trump tweets like the Hulk speaks.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

In an interview this week, the CBS journalist Lesley Stahl claimed President Trump once told her that he deliberately attacks journalists in order to “discredit” them in the public eye. Kimmel said the statement sounded atypical of Trump, in one big way.

“At least he admitted it, right? It turns out one of the very few times Donald Trump has been completely truthful was when he was explaining why he always lies about everything.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“At least in a James Bond movie, when the evil villain tells everyone his plan in detail, there’s a James Bond to stop him!” — JAMES CORDEN

See if you can figure out whether these people are still living with their parents.

David Blaine remains astonishing.

Anne Hathaway, a star in the new movie “Ocean’s Eight,” will talk with Colbert on Thursday.

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The Bluths are back. The fifth season of “Arrested Development” will debut May 29 on Netflix, with, from left, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and David Cross.Credit...Aaron Richter for The New York Times

A conversation with the cast of “Arrested Development” got very raw very quickly.

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