Late-night hosts unpack the January 6 hearings, from Pence’s near-miss with danger to Trump’s ‘alternate electors’ scheme
, which have established that if Donald Trump “gets the chance, he’ll absolutely finish the coup he started on January 6,” the Late Night host said.at a Republican convention in Nashville over the weekend, Trump told the crowd: “If I become president someday, if I decide to do it, I will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons.”
“One thing we’re learning from this investigation is that the coup was much more sinister than that pic of the dude jacking the podium,” Meyers added. “If the rioters had the chance, they would’ve done the same thing to Mike Pence.“I feel like, as a nation, we haven’t all fully appreciated the degree to which the president basically almost got the vice-president killed,” he continued. “It feels like something you only read in history books, like the Burr/Hamilton duel.
“Sad to say, so much has changed in Washington that the Capitol police do have to stay at high alert at all times because of the attack on January 6,” said Colbert. “And as the hearings prove more clearly every day, the blame for that actual insurrection all lies with Putin’s puppet.”As the committee will detail, the Trump administration planned to send fake electors from the states Biden won to the declare themselves the “real” electors, via false electoral college certificates.
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