John Oliver joined us for another Last Week Tonight from his great white void and kicked off the episode by addressing a non-coronavirus related story — but it was still big news involving th…
Last week, Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department moved to throw out the case in which Flynn pled guilty about lying to the FBI about his dealings with a Russian official. Oliver points out this is a crime especially considering that Flynn was lying about was his contact a Russian official and the FBI was in the midst of a Russian counterintelligence investigation.
After warming us up with Flynn news, Oliver shifted to his usual unpacking on Trump’s “inability to manage the coronavirus.
. Oliver said that Trump’s cavalier attitude has trickled down to states and many are lifting stay at home orders even though they don’t meet federal guidelines that suggest they reopen when cases decline. In essence, lives are at risk here, but in another press conference, Trump framed it as positive and says that all of us are “warriors together.”
He added, “All this talk of Americans being brave warriors seems designed to accept deaths that we should be trying to prevent and yet, this administration seems, at times, actively hostile to those preventions efforts.”
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