Trevor Noah explains how the FBI's Kavanaugh report isn't, and was never meant to be, useful

The FBI finished its investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, "and the bad news is, the White House loves it," Trevor Noah said on Thursday's Daily Show. "I don't know if we can call a five-day investigation sufficient, although I get why the White House thinks it is — I mean, they've never spent five consecutive days on anything." But this investigation also feels like "a sham" because the FBI left a ton of leads dangling, Noah said. "There were 40 people who said they had information for the FBI, and none of them got interviewed? This is the same FBI who came after me for duplicating a copy of Rambo III on VHS, but they don't have time for the Supreme Court?"

Only senators can view the tightly guarded report, "but this report was never meant for us," Noah said. "The only reason the GOP allowed the FBI to investigate was to satisfy the concerns of three senators: [Maine's Susan] Collins, [Alaska's Lisa] Murkowski, and [Arizona's Jeff] Flake. So it doesn't matter that the investigation wasn't thorough; what matters is that it gives these moderate Republicans the cover they need to vote yes. Basically, Mitch McConnell conducted this process the same way a parent 'checks' under their kid's bed for monsters: 'Okay, there's nothing there. Go to sleep now.'"

"So, it looks like, like it or not, 'Cocaine' Mitch has done it again," Noah said. "He successfully stole Obama's Supreme Court seat, and now he's bulldozed through the #MeToo movement to get Judge Keg Stand onto the Supreme Court."

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In between scenes, Noah dropped the jokes and placed the Kavanaugh kerfuffle into his larger theory about how President "Trump's most powerful tool is that he knows how to wield victimhood," especially "to people who have the least claim to it." He focuses on men versus #MeToo but doesn't stop there. Watch below. Peter Weber