"Yesterday, the U.S.'s top diplomat in Ukraine testified to Congress that the quid, it was oh so pro quo," Samantha Bee said on Wednesday's Full Frontal. The diplomat, William Taylor, gave "the strongest evidence we've seen that [President] Trump really did pressure Ukraine to investigate his rivals since Mick Mulvaney went on TV and admitted it."
"For those who are a little confused by the Biden-Ukraine 'controversy' that Trump was supposedly investigating, let's do a comprehensive explainer of the whole scandal," Bee said. She kept it brief: "It's bulls--t. Explainer over." Former Vice President Joe Biden isn't above reproach on some issues, "but the Ukraine story is not one of them," she said. "So where did Trump get this crazy idea?" Peter Schweizer, a right-wing author whose latest book "created the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory that Trump is obsessed with," Bee explained.
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Schweizer did it with Hillary Clinton in 2016, "and now the media are falling for the same scam all over again," Bee said. "The good news is that this time his scheme backfired and it may lead to Trump's impeachment. The bad news is that he probably has further plans for 2020," like "a book suggesting that Elizabeth Warren owns a condo in North Korea" or something. She tried out a Schweizer of her own, and if you don't mind some scattered NSFW language, watch below. Peter Weber
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