President Trump is rather famously having trouble finding good lawyers to represent him in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, and two more prominent attorneys turned him down on Monday, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. Those lawyers and two who backed out Sunday all cited "conflicts," Colbert said, imagining their excuse: "Oh, I'd love to be your lawyer, Donald, but I've got conflicts. It turns out I'm already scheduled to ride a mechanical bull made of cheese graters and then squat in a bowl of gin, and I'd much rather do that."
"Now this next part's weird," Colbert said, pointing to a report that Mueller himself may actually be quietly steering Trump away from conflicted or otherwise harmful legal counsel. "Now if this is true," he said, "then clearly the best lawyer Trump has against Robert Mueller is ... Robert Mueller." He pantomimed Mueller being both Trump's defense lawyer and prosecutor.
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