"Well, another day, another presidential tweetnado," Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday's Late Show. "Brace yourself, this one's about the Russia investigation." He poked fun at President Trump's "smocking gun" tweet then read "the worst of Trump's tweets today," in which the president urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to kill Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "Rigged Witch Hunt," more commonly known as the Trump-Russia investigation.
"Donald Trump is telling his attorney general to shut down the investigation of Donald Trump," Colbert pointed out. "Rudy [Giuliani] should tell him that just because he's doing it in public doesn't mean it's not obstruction of justice. Public urination is still urination!" Trump is probably nervous about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort's ongoing trial, he added, but he had a funny way of showing it: "Wow, Trump really knows how to make you seem sympathetic: Compare you to America's sweetheart, Al Capone — who, I remind you, died on an inescapable prison island, of syphilis."
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