NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist literature but a victim of Trump’s “naked authoritarianism” and East German-like desire to eliminate dissent.
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Colbert also alleged, “Trump's goons aren't just jack-booted thugs, they're also slow-witted doofs. Because according to the detained man's lawyer, the ICE agents who took him into custody initially claimed to be acting on a State Department order to revoke his student visa, but his lawyer told them he was actually a permanent resident with a green card, so they said they would revoke that documentation instead.”
Breaking out his Trump impression, Colbert continued, “Despite the mistake, Trump made sure to let us know this was no mistake, posting, ‘This is the first arrest of many to come.’ So he is gonna arrest anyone who disagrees with him? Even me? John Oliver?"
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