John Oliver Provides Laura Ingraham Credit score For Seeing William Barr-Donald Trump “Rift” As A Ruse

John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Final Week Tonight by taking intention on the media hyping a possible rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the lawyer normal complained final week in regards to the president’s tweeting about Justice Division issues.

Oliver even gave credit score to Fox Information host Laura Ingraham for telling her viewers that the media noticed a Barr-Trump rift as a “horny” story however “missed the truth that Barr was principally telling Trump, ‘Don’t fear, I obtained this.’”

“To borrow a phrase used nearly completely by white supremacists, Laura Ingraham was proper,” Oliver stated.

The opening section of Oliver’s present was on the aftermath of Trump’s impeachment acquittal, as he singled out Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for saying that the president had “discovered from this case.”

“After all he hasn’t discovered his lesson. Trump by no means learns his lesson. This can be a man whose first born youngster was Donald Trump Jr., and he stored having youngsters!” Oliver stated.

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Then he went into the case of Roger Stone, the previous Trump affiliate who was convicted of obstruction, mendacity below oath and witnesses tampering.

On Monday, prosecutors advisable {that a} choose impose a sentence between seven to 9 years. The subsequent morning, Trump tweeted that the sentence was unfair and a “miscarriage of justice.” Then, on Tuesday afternoon, the Justice Division reversed itself. All 4 prosecutors on the case then resigned.

Barr gave an interview to ABC Information on Thursday through which he complained about Trump’s tweeting about DOJ felony circumstances, whereas insisting that he was already seeking to revise the sentencing advice on Monday night, earlier than Trump posted his message about Stone.

“Even in the event you suppose the advisable sentence was in actual fact too lengthy, it’s as much as the choose whether or not to impose it, and there’s an attraction system after that,” Oliver stated. “However to have DOJ management interfering in a case involving a Trump ally, hours after the president immediately commented on it, is appalling. That is America. Your expertise with the felony justice system mustn’t rely on how a lot the president likes you. It ought to rely on how a lot cash you’ve gotten, what coloration your pores and skin is, and whether or not the choose has already has had lunch. That’s how we do issues in America. That’s how we do issues right here in the US, buddy.”

In his ABC Information interview, Barr denied that he mentioned the case with Trump. However Oliver stated that “Barr’s feedback weren’t a lot ‘Don’t intervene with the Justice Division,’ as they have been, ‘Don’t publicly intervene with the Justice Division, as a result of I’m already doing what you need.’”

He cited experiences that the DOJ is also reviewing the prosecution of one other Trump ally, Michael Flynn.

“All of which means that Susan Collins could have been proper about one factor: Trump did be taught a lesson from his impeachment trial. Particularly, I can get away with something, as a result of nobody will maintain me accountable.”

In his second section, Oliver made the case for Medicare for All. Regardless that the single-player plan advocated by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren can be an enormous budgetary and political hurdle, Oliver walked by means of how it could be changing a system that’s already damaged to the purpose of madness. He cited the case of a pair attempting to finance a surgical procedure for his or her daughter by way of a Go Fund Me marketing campaign, to the purpose the place they need to hope her plight takes off on social media.

“It’s a fairly dystopian society that we live in in case your bodily and monetary properly being relies on whether or not your crowdfunding marketing campaign can get a sign increase from Jiffpom the pomeranian,” he stated. “And good luck with that by the way in which. I’ve been attempting to publish our gerrymandering piece for months now and he received’t do it. Come on Jiffpom. Throw some f–king bone. You asshole!”

“The purpose is, any answer which may put an finish to that’s value a minimum of contemplating, certainly,” Oliver stated.

Oliver additionally challenged notions that Medicare for All can be too pricey, that it could result in longer wait instances and that it could restrict selection by pointing how the present personal system has all of these drawbacks.

He stated that one factor that Britain “does properly” is the one payer Nationwide Well being Service. “I’ve by no means had a nasty expertise, and I don’t know anybody who has. However since transferring to America, I don’t suppose I’ve met anybody who doesn’t have a minimum of one insurance coverage business horror story.”

Final Week Tonight airs Sunday on HBO.

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