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‘A Pillow Over the Constitution’s Face’
Stephen Colbert is not happy with the way things are going in the Russia investigation. President Trump is seeking to have the Justice Department look into the F.B.I.’s use of an informant to investigate the Trump presidential campaign’s ties to Russia.
“Now, some people are calling this a constitutional crisis, but I don’t know about that. A constitutional crisis technically requires that one branch of the government push back against another branch of government. Everybody here is pushing in the same direction, and it’s down — with a pillow over the Constitution’s face, going, ‘Shhh, shhh, it’ll be over soon!’ It’s gotten so bad, the opening words have gone from ‘We the people’ to ‘Help, I forgot the safe word!’” — STEPHEN…
