“The House select committee investigating January 6th resumed their public hearings on Thursday, and painted a chilling and criminally insane portrait of an attempt to steal the election by weaponizing the justice department. Former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen told the committee that Trump phoned him on Christmas Eve 2020 to pressure him to call the election fraudulent with no evidence. What a lovely way to spend Christmas Eve. Twas the night before Christmas and all through DC, the Potus was screaming ‘the winner was me!’ / The conspiracies hung like a stench in the air, as thin and as fake as the president’s hair.” —Stephen Colbert
“The committee also read from handwritten notes by former acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue on what Trump said during phone calls: ‘Just say that the election is corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. congressmen.’ Donoghue’s note is the heart of the crime. The president knows there’s no evidence, and he wants the DoJ to just lie and say that there is evidence of corruption, so that his cronies in Congress can overturn the fair election. Donoghue also said that as the president grew more agitated, he started making absurd requests such as ‘why don’t you guys seize machines?’ Well that’s a very casual way to end democracy. [Colbert, pretending to direct an order at dinner] – ‘Hey guys, why don’t you all seize the machines, I’ll cancel the elections, and just order some secret police for the whole table. You guys want to go halfsies on fascism with me? I hear the brownshirts here are delicious.’” —Stephen Colbert
“According to Donoghue’s notes, the former president justified his outlandish conspiracy theories by saying, ‘you guys may not be following the internet the way I do.’ You mean on the toilet with the safe search off?” —Stephen Colbert
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“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.”
