"Hey, you know who's having a great Christmas?" Stephen Colbert asked on Wednesday's Late Show. "Donald Trump. He got what he wanted for Christmas — America — and he's regifting it to his buddies." He took a look at Trump's emerging Cabinet — including newly named adviser Stephen Miller — and tackled the new revelations about the phishing scam that Russian hackers used to steal Hillary Clinton campaign emails, passed on to WikiLeaks.
"I can't believe a trick this obvious took down the most sophisticated campaign in history," he said. "That would be like winning World War II by luring Hitler out of his bunker with a fake lady Hitler." But it gets crazier, Colbert said, because Clinton's tech support accidentally said the suspect link was legitimate, when he meant to write illegitimate. "The entire election hinged on a typo," he sighed. "It really legitimizes our democracy — I'm sorry, delegitimizes. That's a typo."
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