Colbert: Junior Got Daddy To Write Him A Note

The Week reports:

When Donald Trump Jr. was discovered to have met with a bunch of Russians who turned out to have ties to Russian intelligence, he “released a statement saying he didn’t know who he was meeting with and they mostly talked about adoption,” not Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday’s Late Show. “Those were lies, including the lie that he said it,” because according to The Washington Post, President Trump dictated the statement. “He dictated it,” Colbert said. “It’s official — Donald Trump is a dictator, technically.”

“Don Jr. gets in trouble, he literally got his daddy to write a note for him,” Colbert recapped. According to his advisers, Trump “believes he is innocent” and “therefore does not think he is at any legal risk,” he added, rolling his eyes. “And everyone knows you can’t be convicted if you’re not guilty in your mind.” But “as bad as this looks for Trump — and it looks bad — it looks even worse for his lawyer,” Jay Sekulow, he said.