-A judge ruled on Friday that Donald Trump
will remain in contempt of court after failing to comply
with a subpoena in a fraud investigation.
As more bombshell text messages emerged
implicating more GOP members of Congress
in the attempted coup on January sixth.
Also, Trump endorsed
a nonexistent person for Senate in Ohio.
For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
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As we have established for a long time now.
One of the things Trump did to the modern GOP
is he weird-ified it.
He unleashed his army of Mafia bobblehead goons and freaks.
And now the Republican Party is an institution
just filled with weirdos obsessed with things
like cocaine fueled orgies,
Disney erotica and testicle tanning.
An example of one of those weirdos
is his former personal attorney and neck-less
wonder Rudy Giuliani.
Now, we have shown you clips over the years of Rudy Giuliani
saying and doing many bizarre things.
But I have to say this latest might be the weirdest yet.
Rudy is on Cameo where you can pay him to say things.
And to advertise that fact,
he posted this video online today.
-I'm Rudy Giuliani.
If you want to have a really nice conversation
or a birthday greeting or just talk golf
go to the link below.
-This is the weirdest metronome I have ever seen.
It does not even look. I'm sorry.
It doesn't even look like an actual human body.
It looks like one of Jeff Dunham's puppets.
It's like a like a windup toy
you get in a giveaway bag at a mobster's funeral.
Is this from his new movie "Weekend at Rudy's"?
Why is he just flaccidly swinging the club back and forth
like a wet pool noodle the entire time?
Is he trying to hypnotize us? I'm not wasting money on Cameo.
Or will I get Cameo?
It looks like one of those drinking birds.
if instead of water, all it drank with scotch.
So it's a party of weirdos led by head weirdo Donald Trump
who keeps going around the country,
reminding us of his relentless weirdness.
For example, it has been well documented,
including on this show,
that Trump has an obsession with toilets.
He has a whole platform ranting about toilets
not flushing due to low water pressure.
And even now, amid a deadly plague
and a land war in Europe,
it's still one of the staples of his rallies speeches.
Trump repeated it again during a rally in Ohio
just over a week ago.
-You ever go into a new home and you turn on the faucet
and there's no water comes out.
So you're sitting there washing your hands.
It'll come on water. Come out, baby.
Same thing with showers. I'd go into a shower
and I'd go to a hotel that was new and I said,
"I can't stay in these places." Why?
The water just drips out a little bit slowly.
And I won't talk about the third element of the bathroom,
because every time I do,
the fake news only talks about that.
But you know what I'm talking about one time,
two times, five times, ten times, no water comes out.
-I love that he used to be the leader of the free world
and now he sounds like an all caps post on Next Door.
"I flush one, two, three times. No water comes out.
Also, have you seen this cat?"
And by the way, it is not normal that we know
his position on toilets.
Biden has been president for over a year.
I have no idea where he stands on toilets.
I mean, I assume he's pro.
Also, I like the Trump thinks
as long as he doesn't say the word toilet.
The fake news won't know what he's talking about.
Like our minds are blown when he calls it the third element.
Like it's a canceled sci-fi series.
Although it would be amazing
if Trumpers started calling it the third element.
It would save you trouble if you were ever at a family reunion,
and some distant cousin was like,
Hey, I got to go hit the third element.
But when we get back, we're going to start talking politics.
You could be in your car before he even flushed.
Now there is a chance
Trump's obsession with toilets and their inability to flush
has something to do with the fact that he reportedly
has a habit of destroying documents via a toilet.
While President Trump was in office,
staff in the White House residence
periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet
and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper.
Either he was destroying official documents
by flushing them or using official documents
as toilet paper.
[ As Trump ] Oh, man, there's no paper.
Mel!
Mel, there's no paper.
Can you slide the daily briefing in, Mel?
Mel, This is the prenup.
You want me to amend it?
[ Normal voice ] If you want a toilet that can handle official documents,
you need one of those high powered super flushers
they have on airplanes.
You ever seen one of those toilets get clogged?
No. They can handle anything.
Because the people who designed those toilets
knew what they were up against.
A plane full of people who had breakfast
and stopped at the airport bar,
then got a Cinnabon and then ate a vintage Salisbury steak
in severe turbulence. Those toilets are ready to go.
You could put a toaster in there and flush it without a problem.
Anyway, the point of all of this.
If there can even be a point.
Is that Trump has a troubled history
with document preservation, and that troubled history
is now costing him after a judge ruled on Friday
that he's still in contempt of court
for failing to turn over documents
Trump claims he doesn't have.
-Breaking news out of New York
where former President Donald Trump
is now being held in contempt of court
for refusing to comply with a subpoena
as part of the New York AG's investigation into his company.
-A Manhattan judge rejecting former President Trump's appeal,
denying his lawyers request to lift a contempt of court order
despite the former president submitting an affidavit
that he just can't find the documents they're looking for.
This comes just three days after that contempt order kicked in,
which would fine Mr. Trump $10,000 each day
until he coughs up the related documents.
-First of all, it doesn't surprise me at all
that Trump says he can't find the documents they want.
And then the Trump organization didn't have actual files.
I doubt they even recorded any of their meetings.
When you get a Google calendar
invite from the Trump Organization,
it probably just says subject the thing,
location the place, attendees the guys.
So Trump is now been held in contempt
as part of a fraud investigation in which he claims
he doesn't have the documents that have been subpoenaed.
And if you ask me, there's a decent chance
the reason he doesn't have them
is he flush them down the toilet.
This is the guy.
This is the guy the Republican Party is in lockstep behind.
Just consider how humiliating it must be to grovel
for the toilet weirdos endorsement,
which Republicans across the country have been doing.
Like Senate candidate J.D. Vance in Ohio,
Vance spent years relentlessly criticizing Trump,
and now he has to debase himself
by taking back all those criticisms
in order to earn Trump's endorsement.
And Trump has returned Vance's loyalty
by refusing to even remember his name.
-Author and former venture capitalist J.D. Vance
desperately sought and earned
the endorsement from former President Trump over Ohio's
former state treasurer Josh Mandel.
Although for a moment overnight, it wasn't clear to anyone,
apparently even Trump, exactly who he endorsed.
-You know, we've endorsed Dr. Oz.
We've endorsed J.P., right J.D. Mandel,
and he's doing great. They're all doing good.
-I mean, it's pretty remarkable that we've endorsed Dr. Oz.
Isn't even the craziest sentence in that clip.
This guy can't even be bothered to remember the names
of the people he's endorsing, he went from J.P. to J.D. Mandel.
If you kept talking, he would have endorsed J.K. Rowling.
[ As Trump ] We endorse J.P., J.D., you know, the famous the famous writer,
J.K. Rowling, the author of
"Harry Potter and The Third Element."
[ Normal voice ] This is how much you have to forfeit your dignity to succeed
in today's Republican Party.
You have to grovel and debase yourself
to earn the endorsement of a guy
who can't even remember your name.
A toilet obsessed weirdo who in the same speech once again
bragged about acing that stupid dementia test
where you have to identify some animals on a piece of paper.
-I said, "How tough is this test, Ronnie?
Because these people are calling me bad names,
they're calling me stupid.
They're stupid, Ronnie. And we got to end this [bleep]."
So I said, "How long and how tough is the test?"
They said, "Well, the first questions are easy,
but when you get to the middle of the tests, they're very hard.
-Yeah, they're very hard. For example,
you have to remember the names of people you have endorsed.
That's how smart people pronounce it, though, "stoopid."
Let me just remind you, all, in case you've forgotten,
and I hope you have that none of the questions are hard.
There's a part of the test where you have to name a few animals.
And judging from his inability to remember human names,
I can't imagine Trump aced it.
I'm guessing he wrote down,
I don't know for this one...
and probably called this one...
This, this is the guy for whom the Republican Party
tried to overthrow democracy.
Every day we get more evidence implicating more and more
Republicans in the attempted coup.
Republican members of Congress were secretly texting
and hatching schemes to keep Trump in power.
As the AP reported over the weekend,
there's mounting evidence of GOP involvement
in Trump's election schemes.
That includes people like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan,
who was texting with Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Just hours before the mob stormed the Capitol,
Jordan offered a legal rationale for what Trump was publicly
demanding that Vice President Mike Pence,
in his ceremonial role,
presiding over the electoral count,
somehow assert the authority
to reject electors from Biden won states.
Pence should call out all electoral votes
that he believes are unconstitutional
as no electoral votes at all, Jordan wrote.
You don't get to just throw out votes
you believe are unconstitutional.
Believing doesn't make it so.
It's not a Disney movie, "Dumbo, you can fly.
You have to believe. Just don't look down."
-Below! -But...
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I would, I would've liked to hear
Trump try to thank Jim Jordan for his loyalty.
[ As Trump ] I just want to thank my close friend and ally,
the great congressman from Ohio, Jim Jarmusch.
Jimmy, we love his movies though over coffee and cigarets.
And that was today's...
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In addition...[Laughs] [ Laughter ]
In addition to being a party of aspiring authoritarians hellbent
on dismantling democracy, the Republican Party
is just filled with weirdos.
Their standard bearer is a guy whose main obsession is toilets,
specifically, toilets that aren't
strong enough to handle all his --
-[bleep] -This has been A Closer Look.
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