Colbert Finds the Silver Lining in Report Trump Made a Troubling ‘Promise’ to a Foreign Leader (Video)

Bad faith never sounded so good

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Stephen Colbert was able to find what might be the one bright spot in the unsettling report Thursday that a whistleblower in a U.S. intelligence agency filed a complaint over something Donald Trump said to a foreign leader: As if anyone could trust Trump.

According to the Washington Post, in August a U.S. intelligence official filed the formal whistleblower complaint because he was “alarmed” by a “promise” Trump made to the still-unnamed foreign leader.

“Yeah. A promise to an unknown foreign leader,” Colbert said during his “The Late Show.” monologue on Thursday’s episode. “Thank God Trump never keeps his promises.”

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