Thursday was President Trump's 72nd birthday, and Stephen Colbert got him a present he probably won't want. "Of course, the gift he wanted was the inspector general's report on the Department of Justice's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, which was released this afternoon," Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "So it's time for another installment of our long-running segment, 'Hillary Clinton Impeachment Watch.'"
"Trump and his allies were hoping the report would prove that there was an elaborate 'deep state' working against the Trump campaign, and there is proof of a huge conspiracy working to stop Trump from being elected," Colbert said, "a shadowy group known as 'the popular vote.'" The report was very critical of former FBI Director James Comey — as was Colbert — but the "good news," he said, is that "the head of the FBI wasn't corrupt, just super dumb" — not that Republicans are done trying to do "whatever it takes to get Hillary Clinton out of the White House!"
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