"It has been a helluva week," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "A lot of people are celebrating because Donald Trump is in serious trouble, but Trump has shown over and over again that when he's cornered, he will fight like the rabid weasel that lives on his head. And Republicans have shown they'll go along with whatever he does, no matter what. So this isn't going to be so much light at the end of the tunnel as a long fall down a dark and dirty pit."
The day started with the release of the damning whistleblower complaint from a U.S. intelligence officer concerned about Trump's interactions with Ukraine's president. "Whoever blew this whistle does not mince words," Colbert said. "Soliciting interference from a foreign power to influence a U.S. election — well, you know what they say: If at first you do succeed, try, try that again." And the allegation that the White House tried to "lock down" the transcript in a top secret computer network? "Is everything Trump accuses someone else of, something he's done?" Colbert asked. "He used a secret computer server, he colluded with Ukraine, he probably cheated on Robert Pattinson — Robert, you can do so much better. Innocent people do not do things like this."
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