The emotions of CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued to fluctuate wildly as he went from panicked on Monday to hopeful on Tuesday to solemnly imploring people to vote against Donald Trump and his “Christo-fascist future” on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show. Also on Wednesday, Colbert welcomed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to the show to accuse Trump of wanting to have her assassinated.
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Later in the show, Colbert promoted Whitmer’s new book, “Again, once again, the book here is True Gretch and about your life, your time in office, and one chapter explores, and this is a weird sentence to read. Explores the 2020 plot to kidnap and assassinate you over COVID restrictions. Which is something that I think we too easily forget how insane it got at the height of COVID and especially with the COVID denialism. What do you most remember about when you found out that this was happening? And how did this experience change you?”
The missing context of this is that the people who were a part of this scheme were also not necessarily fans of Trump. Additionally, some were acquitted because a jury determined that undercover FBI agents were responsible for propelling the plot forward, but naturally Whitmer wasn’t interested in that context.
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