Trevor Noah doubts Paul Manafort landed his Trump-Mueller double flip, laughs at Ivanka's email excuses
"You may remember a few months ago, Special Counsel Robert Mueller convinced [President] Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to flip against Trump," Trevor Noah said on Wednesday's Daily Show. "But now it turns out Manafort may have double-flipped." Yes, he said, Manafort "has apparently been telling Trump what's happening in the Mueller investigation — telling him everything Mueller's thinking about, what they're doing." He compared it to having a friend tell you what's on a test before you take it, and he had a suggestion for how Mueller "figured how that Manafort was being shady."
Noah also dissected Trump's latest word-salad rationale for doubting his own administration's climate change warnings, and razzed Ivanka Trump for her Hillary Clinton–like emails scandal. "I actually believe her when she says that she wasn't using her private account for important work emails, because in order to have important work emails, you have to do important work," he said. "She doesn't do anything! Her inbox is probably just Goop newsletters and thousands of unopened emails from Eric." But seriously, Noah added, "what's amazing is not only is Ivanka's email scandal similar to Hillary's, but the excuses sound the same, too." He had pretty striking proof, and a novel solution: "Lock them up! Lock them up! Make them share a cell! Make it a reality show!" Watch below. Peter Weber
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