Stephen Colbert had two words Wednesday to sum up his reaction to President-elect Donald Trump suing the Des Moines Register and veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer over a pre-election Iowa poll that showed Kamala Harris beating him in the state.
“You won,” said the “Late Show” host of the president-elect.
The president-elect’s lawsuit alleges that the defendants favored the vice president “through use of a leaked and manipulated” poll.
“It’s true, the Des Moines Register leaked its poll where you least expect it — in the Des Moines Register,” Colbert joked.
Trump seeks “accountability for brazen election interference” over the Nov. 2 poll that showed Harris ahead of him by 3 percentage points in the state, according to the legal filing.
“So now it’s interference just to get a prediction wrong? Well in that case, Punxsutawney Phil, you better lawyer up, buttercup,” quipped Colbert on the iconic groundhog, whose forecasting skills haven’t been all that accurate.
He later declared that Trump’s “stupid” lawsuit is a result of ABC News doing a “stupid, stupid thing” in agreeing to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit this past weekend.
“If the president thinks he can bully the media into never saying anything bad about him, well,” said Colbert before he ripped off his glasses and looked into the camera only to swiftly change the topic.
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