As Republicans freak out very slightly in the face of actually having to call some witnesses in Donald Trump's post-impeachment Senate trial — such as John Bolton, former NSW advisor and author of the spiciest tell-all of the upcoming fall publishing season — their star lawyer Alan Dershowitz launched a wild new "legal" "defense".
Basically: Presidents want to get elected because they think they will be the best president for the country, and therefore anything they do to get elected, no matter how shady it is, is totally kosher.
I'm barely paraphrasing.
An incredulous Stephen Colbert unpacked that argument line by line in Wednesday night's Late Show monologue, and it's worth watching just to make sure you're hearing Dershowitz correctly.
"Let me get this straight," Colbert began. "If a politician believes their reelection is in the public interest — and he just said all politicians believe that — it naturally follows that anything they do to get reelected is fine."
As Colbert summed it up: "Your logic is like a snake eating its own tail — or a head eating its own ass."
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