"It's been an exciting couple of weeks for those of us following the Mueller investigation," Samantha Bee said on Wednesday's Full Frontal. On Tuesday night, she said, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's sentencing memo for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn dropped, "fetchingly dressed in horizontal stripes, and about two weeks ago," notably, President Trump finally handed Mueller his written testimony on Russian collaboration and "Mueller's team tossed Paul Manafort in the trash like a picked-over turkey carcass."
There's speculation that Mueller wanted Manafort and Trump to coordinate their lies so he could nab both of them, and "if it is what happened, it is absolutely allowed," Bee said. "Despite what you may have heard on Fox News, Mueller does not have to save Trump from incriminating himself."
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