The "alarming flavor crystals" in Bob Woodward's new White House chronicle, Fear, have refreshed that "tang of panic in the back of our throats when we remember that a former reality show star and unindicted co-conspirator is the commander in chief," Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday's Late Show. Fear documents how "Trump's Cabinet has gone to extreme lengths to protect the country from his bad decisions," Colbert said, and while Trump calls the book pure fiction, an anonymous New York Times op-ed by a senior administration official on Wednesday begs to differ.
The op-ed "is written by someone who works for the administration, believes in its policies and goals, and still thinks the president is a dangerous idiot," Colbert said. "How many people could there be like that in the White House? I'm going to guess, count the people in the White House and subtract one." White House "staff has been defending Trump from Woodward's book all day," he added, "but now someone inside — maybe one of those same people — has found the courage to stand up and say, 'Nope, it's all true! P.S. Hide my name from the bad orange man.'"
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