-The Justice Department effectively called
the President of the United States
a criminal on Friday
as Trump announced the departure of his chief of staff.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Trump is desperate to talk about anything
other than the growing legal problems
engulfing his presidency.
And you can tell because he's picking fights
with everyone from France to China
to his own former Secretary of State.
He's like a feral raccoon
trapped in a corner in the attic.
[ Laughter ]
If he loses in 2020, they're going to have to
chase him out of the Oval Office with a broom.
"Go! Get on! Get outta here!
Oh, no! Now he's biting the broom!"
[ Laughter ]
On Saturday, for example,
he unleashed an unhinged Twitter rant
about Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal
and unveiled a new nickname for him,
calling him "The Dick."
[ Laughter ]
Wow. He's getting angrier and lazier.
[ Laughter ]
The guy's name is Richard so you nicknamed him "The Dick"?
Go ahead. Take the rest of the week off.
You nailed it.
[ Light laughter ]
Then Trump called his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
"dumb as a rock" and "lazy as hell"
after Tillerson, in a rare interview,
offered some brutal criticism of his former boss.
-How would you describe Donald Trump?
-He acts on his instincts.
In some respects, that looks like impulsiveness.
But it's not his intent to act on impulse.
I think he really is trying to act on his instincts.
It was challenging for me coming from the disciplined,
highly process-oriented ExxonMobil Corporation
to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined,
doesn't like to read.
[ Laughter ]
-That's the former Secretary of State
talking about the president of the United States
like he's Mowgli.
[ Laughter ]
"I mean, he doesn't mean to howl and walk on all fours.
He was raised by wolves."
[ Laughter ]
Although, in fairness to Trump,
the reason he doesn't like to read
is that he is bad at it, even if he will never admit it.
-Through their lives, and though their lives...
Beating expectations in the House for the midtown
and midterm year.
They sacrifice every day
for the furniture -- future of their children.
[ Laughter ]
-Instead of saying --
Instead of saying, "furniture, excuse me, future..."
[ Laughter ]
He doubled down on "furniture" and "future."
[ Laughter ]
Can you imagine being this guy's Secretary of State?
"I want to bomb North Dakota."
"You mean North Korea?"
"I mean North Dakota and North Korea!"
[ Laughter ]
"I meant both! You cut me off!"
[ Laughter ]
"Before I got to North Korea."
[ Laughter ]
And while he fires off one Twitter insult after another,
his White House is also undergoing
an unprecedented level of staff turnover.
People are quitting this White House
like it's a Kmart the day before Black Friday.
[ Laughter ]
And on Saturday, Trump confirmed speculation
that Chief of Staff John Kelly
would be leaving the White House at the end of the year,
which means we're at the end of the John Kelly era.
And I just hope that now that his tenure is over,
everyone who hailed him as a paragon of discipline and order
when he first took over will look back and admit
that they were very wrong.
-Kelly's mission is less drama, more discipline
inside the inner circle.
-He's gonna be great.
Keeping things organized, keeping everyone in their lane.
-I think he will bring some order and discipline
to the West Wing.
-I hope that he will demonstrate to the president
the value of discipline.
-If anybody can bring order and discipline to this White House,
it is General Kelly.
I hope that we're at a turning point now.
-Oh, hey, it's Senator Richard Blumenthal
from earlier.
And you were right, Senator -- it was a turning point.
When it started, you were Richard Blumenthal,
and when it ended, you were "The Dick."
[ Laughter ]
Guess he stayed in his lane.
[ Laughter ]
Kelly was never going to bring discipline to this White House.
For one thing, you can't change Trump.
And, also, Kelly wanted the same thing as Trump.
We all just projected ourselves onto Kelly
because his face always looked the way we felt.
[ Laughter ]
But now we know that's just his face.
That's his "Everything is going great" face.
Here he is, blowing out the candles on his birthday cake.
[ Laughter ]
And here's John Kelly on a roller coaster.
[ Laughter ]
-In fact, Kelly served a president
for whom lawbreaking was apparently so routine
that Tillerson had to routinely explain to the President
that the things he wanted to do were illegal.
-When the President would say, "Well, here's what I want to do,
and here's how I want to do it,"
and I'd have to say to him, "Well, Mr. President,
I understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way.
It violates the law. It violates treaty."
-The Secretary of State had to explain to the President
that what he wanted to do was illegal.
I can't even imagine what that was.
"Yes, Mr. President, we have the technology,
but you can't just shoot someone into space.
It's illegal, and on top of that, it's your son."
[ Laughter ]
Trump is fundamentally lawless.
Not only does he think he's above the law,
he doesn't even understand the law.
And on Friday, we got clearest picture yet
of his serial lawbreaking.
The Special Counsel in the Russia investigation
and prosecutors in New York filed sentencing memos
for Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort
and his ex-fixer Michael Cohen.
And they made it pretty clear that the Justice Department
has damning evidence on Trump's ties to Russia.
-In a new court filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller
says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
lied about several key points
after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.
-Now, this could mean Mueller's team has more evidence
about contacts between people close the President
and Russians during the 2016 campaign.
-In November 2015, prosecutors say Cohen
spoke with a Russian national
who claimed to be a trusted person in the Russian Federation
who promised the campaign political synergy
and synergy on a government level.
-Oh, synergy.
Trump must have been so pumped when he heard that.
"See, it wasn't collusion. It was synergy.
And now I'm just gonna check my thesaurus.
And, son of a bitch!"
[ Laughter and applause ]
And -- And if you thought --
[ Applause ]
If you thought prosecutors were being coy
when they used the word synergy instead of collusion,
they were much more on the nose
in their sentencing recommendations for Cohen.
Prosecutors spelled out as clearly as possible
in this document that they believe
the President of the United States
committed a crime by paying hush money to cover up affairs.
How do we know that?
Well, they didn't mention Trump by name,
but according to the court documents,
"During the campaign, Cohen played a central role
in two similar schemes to purchase the rights to stories,
each from women who'd claimed to have an affair
with Individual 1, so as to suppress the stories
and thereby prevent them from influencing the election."
And who is Individual 1?
Well, the court documents are cryptic, but here's one clue.
"On approximately June 16, 2015, Individual 1 began
an ultimately successful campaign
for President of the United States."
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughter ]
Of course, the only thing worse for Trump
than finding out he's Individual 1
would be if he found out he was Individual 2.
[ Laughter ]
"Who the hell is number 1?!"
[ Laughter ]
"It's not Hillary, is it?"
So there you go -- the court documents
say explicitly that Individual 1
committed a felony, and they made clear
that Individual 1 is the President of the United States,
or as Trump put it on Twitter,
"Totally clears the President, thank you."
[ Laughter ]
Now, you might be asking yourself,
how could Trump have read these documents
and come to the conclusion that they totally clear him?
And he explained it to reporters on Saturday.
-On the Mueller situation, we're very happy with
what we are reading,
because there was no collusion whatsoever.
I think it's all turning around very nicely.
But as far as the report that we see,
according to everybody I've spoken to --
I have not read it. -You --
[ Laughter ]
You didn't read it?
Oh, dude, you -- you should read it.
[ Laughter ]
If there was a document that detailed crimes
I was implicated in, the only way I wouldn't read it
is if I knew what was in it.
Trump might as well go full old cowboy and say,
"I don't have to read it, boy.
I lived it."
[ Laughter ]
Well, in lieu of reading, Trump must've spent the weekend
psyching himself up, because this morning,
he got up early and gave us all
that classic Twitter meltdown we were expecting.
And aside from the misspellings,
watch how many times he changes his argument
in the span of just two tweets.
-Democrats can't find a smoking gun
tying the Trump campaign to Russia
after James Comey's testimony.
No smoking gun, no collusion. @FoxNews
That's because there was," all caps, "no collusion.
So now the Dems go to simple private transaction,
wrongly calling it a campaign contribution,
which it was not, but even if it was,
it's only a civil case, like Obama's.
But it was done correctly by a lawyer,
and there would not even be a fine.
Lawyer's liability if he made a mistake, not me.
Cohen," speaking of Michael Cohen, his former fixer,
"just trying to get his sentence reduced."
All caps, "Witch hunt!"
-My God. It was legal, but if it wasn't, it was civil.
But it was done correctly,
but if it wasn't, it's not my fault."
[ Laughter ]
But to put it a way Donald Trump will understand,
where there's smock, there's foyer.
[ Laughter and applause ]
And let's just --
let's just address for a second
this argument that Obama did the same thing,
because it's an argument Trump's supporters
are starting to make, and it's insane.
Every campaign makes paperwork errors.
That happens all the time.
And in 2013, Obama's campaign was fined
for omitting some donors' names.
Independent experts called it relatively minor,
and even a Republican lawyer
said it was a very clean audit report
for the Obama campaign.
And let's be honest, there's a huge difference
between an accounting error and a hush payment
to cover up an affair.
If you don't believe me, go home and tell your spouse,
"I had sex with a porn star and made an accounting error."
[ Laughter ]
Let me know which one they focus on.
[ Laughter and applause ]
Trump didn't just make a paperwork error.
It's not like he was sitting there with a green eye shade,
trying to balance the books and missed something.
"Let's see -- 50 bucks for pizza,
$100 for lawn signs.
Oh, $130,000 to pay off a porn star.
I almost forgot. I'll put that under utilities."
[ Laughter ]
Every day, there are new revelations
that seem to fade away, but this feels like a watershed.
The Justice Department just called
the President of the United States a criminal.
I don't know if Trump will ever be indicted or impeached,
but if he is, he probably won't know what he's charged with
because he -- -Doesn't like to read.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
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