Pence has been implicated in Trump's efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government into opening an investigation into 2020 rival Joe Biden.
Colbert suggested Pence"had to have known" that Zelensky would make the connection, given that the vice president had been given a transcript of the now-infamous call between Trump and Zelensky.
The comedian compared Pence with someone trying to avoid being ticketed for speeding by saying,"Officer, you can't give me a ticket—I probably didn't read the stop sign. Or if I did, I didn't register what it said. How could I? I was doing 90 through that school zone." "The president consistently raised concerns about corruption and the lack of burden-sharing by European partners, so having run on an anti-corruption campaign, Zelensky was receptive to those messages," Short told the"The vice president, as your reporting says, reported back to the president after the meeting and the aid was released."
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