"Impeachment, it's the most presidential thing Donald Trump has ever done — and after a full week of arguments in Trump's second Senate trial," 57 senators found him guilty, Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show. "The bad news for Donald Trump is that seven members of his own party said that he was guilty, which is unprecedented. The good news for him is it wasn't enough. So Trump is free to go, baby — 2024, here we come!"
Lots of people are disappointed, but "this is what Trump does, he wiggles his way out of accountability," Noah said. "Trying to hold Trump responsible for his crimes is like trying to kill a fruit fly." Getting to acquittal was a little tricky for Republicans, though, since unlike the GOP base, "most Americans don't like Trump and think he should have been convicted," Noah said. "So to make everybody happy, senators came up with a really amazing and bulls--t excuse that even if Trump was guilty, they couldn't do anything about it because he's already out of office." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), he noted, basically said "Trump caused the riot, Trump is super guilty, and Mitch just hopes that someday, someone else will do something about it."
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