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Colbert roasts Trump's increasingly disturbing comments on the Ukraine whistleblower

Name: Colbert roasts Trump's increasingly disturbing comments on the Ukraine whistleblower
Uploaded: 2019-09-27T06:21:13+00:00
Description: "Innocent people don't do things like this."

"Innocent people don't do things like this."

Caitlin Welsh

on September 27, 2019

Colbert roasts Trump's increasingly disturbing comments on the Ukraine whistleblower

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The Trump-Ukraine-call-pressure-whistleblower scandal-saga — which is still sprawling out in so many bonkers directions that nobody's given it a catchy -gate nickname yet — continues to grow, and with it, the president's genuinely impressive list of ways to look incredibly not-innocent.

On Thursday night's Late Show, Stephen Colbert ran through some of the more unhinged lowlights from the past 24 hours, from the recording where Trump implies the whistleblower is a "spy" who should be executed, to the revelation that the whistleblower's concerns were rebuffed because they might not "support" Trump's re-election.

"Well, yeah! Cos the whistleblower knows he committed a bunch of crimes! It's the same reason you don't invite the guy who tried to kill you to your dinner party. ... 'I'm having trust issues.'"

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.