Stephen Colbert Attacks CBS – His Private Network – Hired by Mick Mulvaney

This week, CBS News announced it has hired Mick Mulvaney, who served as chief budget officer and chief of staff under former president Trump, as its newest contributor.

“My network has received a lot of criticism lately — mostly from myself — because CBS News has hired the president’s former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to ‘provide political analysis on the news outlets. broadcasts and the foundation of the network,’” explained Mulvaney’s mate, Stephen Colbert, on Thursday night Late show.

The late-night host then looked directly into the camera and exclaimed, “What the hell?!”

Many people objected to Mulvaney’s good-natured CBS News gig because during his Trump administration, Mulvaney proudly admitted that Trump had engaged in friendly relations with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky because of the dirty filth of the Biden family; called COVID-19 the “hoax of the day” in February 2020 even though Congress had been briefed on its dangers a month earlier; dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in March 2020, while Trump is telling Americans that the economy is in great shape and that COVID does not pose much of a threat; and write a The Wall Street Journal op-ed promises that if he loses the 2020 election, Trump will give in gracefully.

“I am, for one thing, eager to hear Mulvaney’s combative and objective political analysis,” joked Colbert, adding in his dire predictions, “Is Mick Mulvaney a psychic? are not? Take this man to Vegas! He is Nostra-stupid! ”

He continued: “So obviously I’m just joking, but why would the respected Tiffany Network news department put this crazy toad on a tyrant on their payroll?”

According to a passage in Articles washingtonA top CBS News executive said it hired Mulvaney “to make sure we get priority access to both sides of the aisle because we know that the Republican Party will take over, most likely, in the coming weeks.” middle of term”.

“That’s right! They’re not just reporting the news anymore, they’re predicting it now!” cracked Colbert. Our new spring: Young QShaman, Bob Restricting Abishola’s Reproductive Rightsand… Blue Blood. ”