The Late Present host delves into the too-cozy relationship with Donald Trump and the embattled New York Metropolis mayor, Eric Adams.
Stephen Colbert
It’s a bleak time within the information, Stephen Colbert conceded on Tuesday’s Late Present. “You wish to know the way tousled issues are? The lightest story within the information is a aircraft crash,” he mentioned, referring to the Delta airways flight from Minneapolis that landed the wrong way up at Toronto’s Pearson airport, injuring a number of passengers. “Everybody survived, although – that’s why it’s gentle,” mentioned Colbert.
“Bear in mind the nice outdated days when it was simply doorways flying off the factor? I miss that,” he added subsequent to footage of the upside-down aircraft. “Seeing that aircraft the wrong way up simply feels unsuitable. It’s like operating into your trainer on the grocery retailer, and so they’re the wrong way up and on fireplace.”
In additional native information, 4 prime deputies for Adams resigned on Monday. “He could also be mayor, however these are the individuals who truly administer the town,” Colbert defined, referring to the primary deputy mayor, the deputy mayor for well being and human providers, the deputy mayor for operations and deputy mayor for public security. “So evidently at this level, the town is being run by the one remaining deputy mayor: 100 rats in a trench coat,” Colbert quipped.
The host reminded that final yr, the justice division indicted Adams for secretly soliciting and accepting unlawful marketing campaign donations from rich overseas donors, comparable to Turkish Airways, which he used for flights even when it was inconvenient.
“So Adams was in serious trouble. It didn’t look good for him,” Colbert summarized. “However then like a flash, it hit him: he wasn’t the one high-profile New York prison in public workplace, so he instantly bought all cozy with Donald Trump.” After Trump gained in November, Adams traveled right down to Palm Seaside, Florida, to have lunch with him at Mar-a-Lago. As a substitute of celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day in New York, Adams left the town in the midst of the evening to attend Trump’s inauguration. “Nicely, he needed to go away at midnight, of us, as a result of that’s the one flight from New York to Washington by way of Istanbul,” Colbert quipped.
As soon as Trump took workplace, Adams requested for a pardon. He didn’t get one, however Trump did use the request for leverage, instructing the US deputy lawyer common, Emil Bove, to inform federal prosecutors to drop the costs with out prejudice, that means that they might be introduced once more sooner or later. “So now Trump has Adams by the outdated Turkish delights,” Colbert laughed.
Such a plan required cooperation from New York prosecutors, however the chief of the Manhattan workplace, Danielle R Sassoon, resigned relatively than obey. She was adopted out the door by six different prosecutors. Bove was ultimately compelled to signal the order himself, together with two Washington prosecutors.
Adams, in the meantime, “is already conserving his aspect of the cut price” – after assembly with Trump’s border czar, he opened Rikers Island to Ice brokers. “Nicely, that’s horrible. Rikers isn’t any place for Ice brokers,” mentioned Colbert. “It’s a spot for Eric Adams.”
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