“Late Show” Stephen Colbert mocked two conservative figure’s penchant for making charts to attack Democrats, particularly Hillary Clinton.
The late-night comedian took a look at a chart unveiled by Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, this week, which the lawmaker used to try and convince Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate the “Uranium One” deal in which the Obama administration allowed a Russian firm to purchase a Canadian uranium company with assets in the U.S.
On his show Friday, Colbert cracked some jokes about the web of alleged ties on a chart, including Hillary Clinton, Benghazi, former Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, and Russia.
Once finished, Colbert called the chart a “colorful distraction from the real story,” which he said was the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, and on a new poster he drew a straight line from President Trump to Russia.
Watch the clip below:
Earlier in the day, Colbert poked fun at Fox News host Sean Hannity and his flow chart about Hillary Clinton scandals.
Sean Hannity assembled an intricate chart of Hillary Clinton’s ties that proves, once and for all, that… something? pic.twitter.com/8jhHyzuz4Z— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 17, 2017
