-There are just five, count 'em, five days left
in Donald Trump's presidency.
His White House is being boxed up.
He's now the only president in history to be impeached twice,
and he's turning on some of his closest allies.
including his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
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Yesterday, Trump became the first president in history
to be impeached twice --
this time, for inciting an insurrection.
And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official
by immediately signing the document,
which will then be sent to the Senate for a trial.
-Signing and certifying the bill to make it official.
The Article of Impeachment
entitled "Incitement of Insurrection."
There you see it, right there.
So it's a done deal, as far as
the House of Representatives is concerned.
That document now will be
formally submitted to the U.S. Senate,
where there will be a trial.
-I don't think Pelosi intended this,
but it's a nice, little troll of Trump
to hold up the document for the cameras,
which was clearly one of his favorite parts of the job.
He loved signing things and then showing them off,
like he was doing story time at the local library.
[ As Trump ] "Does everyone see the duck?
Right there? And what does the duck say, kids?
Quack? I don't think so, but it's your dime."
So, the article will be sent to the Senate for a trial,
which could happen immediately, if Mitch McConnell were willing
to bring the Senate back into session early.
You might remember McConnell leaking to reporters
earlier this week that he was pleased with impeachment
and considering voting to convict Trump.
Well, as usual with McConnell,
it turned out that was bull[bleep].
-Mitch McConnell just sent a letter to his Senate colleagues
telling them that he will not bring the Senate back early
before January 19th, to reconvene the Senate.
Democrats wanted to have a quick Senate trial,
have him convicted before he leaves office.
That's not gonna happen.
-McConnell said he's undecided
about whether he'll vote to convict Trump.
He said --
-Of course McConnell tried to polish his reputation
by strategically leaking to the media
that he was considering convicting Trump,
and then when it came time to actually do something,
chose the most craven option available.
Trusting Mitch McConnell to do the right thing
is like trusting Cujo not to bite you.
[ As McConnell ] "Oh, just give me a treat. I won't bite.
I'm a good boy. Ha ha ha. Ha."
[ Normal voice ] Also, what arguments
are you interested in listening to?
Arguments like these?
-It's not just about impeachment anymore.
It's about canceling, as I've said.
Canceling the President
and anyone that disagrees with them.
The Ayatollah can tweet. The President can't.
-Robert De Niro said
that he wanted to punch the president in the face.
Madonna thought about blowing up the White House.
Kathy Griffin held up a likeness
of the President's beheaded head.
-Some have cited the metaphor
that the President lit the flame.
Well, they lit actual flames. Actual fires.
-Rather than actually helping American people in this time,
we start impeachments that further divide our country.
I call bullcrap.
-Oh, you call "bullcrap?"
I didn't know you could invoke your congressional power
of declaring playground law.
[ As Boebert ] "Not only do I call bullcrap,
I regret to inform the Speaker the the impeachment
has indeed bounced off of us and now sticks to you!"
[ Normal voice ] By the way, that's Lauren Boebert,
which also sounds like a playground taunt.
"I'm not a Boebert!"
The congresswoman who has bragged about her intention
to carry a gun in Congress,
and who defied Capitol Police this week
after they asked to search her bag.
And I just want to say,
you think carrying a gun around makes you more free?
It makes everyone else less free.
You get to cosplay as a Wild West sheriff,
and everyone else has to watch what they say,
because they're afraid of you.
That's not freedom, it's intimidation.
I'm sorry, it pains me to say this, but I have no choice --
I call bullcrap. Huhn-huhn-hunh.
Also, let's go to Matt Gaetz.
First of all, your head looks like
the ash tray I made in third grade.
And more importantly, what are you talking about,
"Democrats lit actual flames?"
Are you insane?
It was Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol,
ransacked the place, left five people dead,
and tried to capture or murder elected officials.
Just a note, Gaetz.
When you scream, you don't sound
as righteous as you think you do.
You sound like an angry frat dude telling the Dean
why it was actually Sigma Chi's fault the Greek Row burned down.
[ As Gaetz ] "We had a small, controlled fire pit
for our annual beach-themed summer party,
but Sigma Chi lit actual flames for their pig roast!
Also, they drew eyebrows on our house dog!
Now Rufus looks like a dick!"
[ Normal voice ] Although, I have to say,
my favorite example of GOP psychosis yesterday
came from Marjorie Taylor Greene,
whose name sounds like a child actor from ABC'S TGIF lineup,
but is unfortunately a GOP member of Congress
who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory,
which the FBI has called a domestic terror threat,
said there's an Islamic invasion in the government,
held up an AR-15 in a campaign ad,
endangered her colleagues by refusing to wear a mask
last week during the Capitol lockdown,
and who voted to overturn the election results
even after the riot last week.
-Democrats are on record supporting violence
when it serves their cause, in their own words,
on social media, on interviews,
and on fundraising platforms.
-That's right, she's wearing a mask that says "censored,
in case you couldn't read it
because of the microphone in the way.
You know how dumb you look?
You're speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives
and being broadcast on national television.
It's like Lebron James wearing a shirt that says,
"Play me, coach!"
These people will stop at nothing
to make themselves feel like victims.
It's all they have.
It's the core of their political ideology.
They have no actual policies or principles.
They just spin wild fantasies of persecution,
and that's basically what Fox News has been doing 24/7.
-We impeached the president today without any evidence.
It's just sheer hatred.
If this becomes the norm,
be careful what you wish for today.
Under this theory, the radical left --
if you can impeach a president after they're out of office,
why don't we impeach George Washington?
He owned slaves.
Where does it stop?
-You see, the point is
to hold Trump accountable for his actions
and disqualify him from holding office again.
Washington is already disqualified
on account of, spoiler alert, being dead.
These guys love to just make up insane fantasies,
because it's all they have.
They have no policy goals, just scary, imagined grievances
to keep their base in line.
[ As Graham ] "Next, they're gonna try to impeach
George Washington or Thomas Jefferson
or Paul Blart, or maybe they'll send Ernest to Jail.
Or, hell, even worse, maybe they'll break Ernest out of jail
so his crime spree can continue.
I call bull crap, Sean."
[ Normal voice ] So, I guess those are the kind of arguments
McConnell wants to hear in the impeachment trial.
But even if McConnell delays the trial
until after Trump leaves office,
it's still urgently necessary, because if they convict him,
they can also disqualify him from holding office ever again.
And you know Trump will run again if he can.
Right now he's sitting in the White House,
stewing by himself, watching as they literally
load his [bleep] into boxes.
-Now, as the Trump administration
enters its final stage,
the first sign of the end of a presidency --
a moving van outside the West Wing.
Stacks of moving boxes were being delivered
to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The office will be undergoing a deep cleaning
just before President-elect Biden moves in.
There are very few people left in this building,
and I can tell you that having just walked through
the West Wing in the last hour,
the very few people who are still here
are currently packing up boxes in their offices.
-Trump's still president for five more days,
but that place is emptier than a rest stop Cinnabon at 3:00 AM.
And, man, I didn't think anything could be more cathartic
than Trump losing and getting impeached twice,
but actually, seeing the boxes is pretty great.
Love to imagine Trump piling all his stuff into crates --
his oversize suits, his ties that are so long
that no matter how you pack them, a little bit pokes out.
And I sure hope someone is watching him pack,
because he's definitely going to try to steal stuff.
"Sir, why is the bust of Lincoln being packed away?"
[ As Trump ] "Uh, what? No, this is mine from home.
I brought it. It's not actually Lincoln.
It's my uncle, um... Beard Trump.
Mel?
Mel, I need you to vouch for the bust.
Mel?
We -- Mel?
What?
When did she leave?"
By the way, we we wrote this joke right here,
about stealing the bust this morning,
and then as often happens in the Trump administration,
this afternoon, this went down.
-We're seeing what looks like moving day over here
at the White House.
You're seeing things, items,
coming and going from the West Wing.
We saw Larry Kudlow leaving earlier today.
Here's some video of a bust of Abraham Lincoln
being carried out of the West Wing.
-[ Chuckles ]
You know, who knows?
Maybe they're Purelling them, you know?
Maybe they didn't want even a bust of Lincoln
to see a grown man cry in the Oval Office.
Or maybe, it's an O.J. situation all over again.
That's right.
Just like O.J., they're going to nail Trump
for stealing memorabilia.
As the boxes arrive and the specter
of a second impeachment trial hangs over him,
it's hard to fully articulate
just how much of a failure and disgrace
Trump will be in the eyes of history.
Even if you just go by the numbers alone,
Trump lost the popular vote twice,
both times by millions of votes.
Got impeached twice.
He lost the House by a record margin in 2018,
and he lost the Senate in 2021 by losing two seats
in what has for a long time been a reliably red state.
Do you know how unpopular you have to be as a Republican
to go 0-2 in Georgia?
Imagine if Democrats lost control of the Senate
by going 0-2 in California.
James Carville would be on MSNBC doing tequila shots,
crying into one of his squashed-up hats
I'm assuming he stole from the dumpster
behind a Louisiana thrift store.
What's with this guy?
He always looks like a little kid
who wished on a monkey's paw to be a grown-up.
[ As Carville ] "Ah, cotswaddle!
Not like this!"
Oh, you win this round, monkey paw!"
Oh, and on top of all that,
Trump has also overseen the needless deaths
of hundreds of thousands of Americans,
and will leave office with 3 million fewer jobs
than when he took office --
by far the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history.
Even if everything else about him is forgotten
100 years from now,
those numbers will be remembered forever.
When it's time to do oral reports in history class,
every student will want Trump
because it'll be the easiest assignment.
"Michael, can you give us FDR's accomplishments?"
"Well, he stopped the Great Depression
and won World War II."
"Okay, but you forgot a few things, so, B-.
And Timmy, can you tell us about
Donald Trump's accomplishments?"
"He was friends with Grimace."
"A-plus, Timmy. You got it all.
You could learn a thing or two from Timmy, Michael."
And yet, the harsh reality that we must reckon with
is that, with only a few exceptions,
the Republican Party spent the last four years
colluding with this evil.
And they knew it was evil.
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham,
Nikki Haley -- they all saw it.
They even warned us about it during the primaries --
before deciding to shame themselves, and join in.
And even now, the vast majority of the Republican Party
remains in the grip of a mass delusion
it refuses to shake --
the delusion that motivated last week's attack --
that Trump won the election,
and that Joe Biden is illegitimate.
These people have devoted themselves to the Trump cult.
But if there's one thing we've learned, it's that,
no matter how much loyalty you show him,
he's never, ever, ever gonna repay it.
I mean, look what he did to Mike Pence,
or how about his personal lawyer,
Rudy Giuliani, the man who single-handedly led the charge
to get the election overturned by flying from state to state,
holding press conferences at landscaping companies,
and meeting with every drunk loon he could find?
Obviously, it was all a grift.
Rudy was reportedly billing Trump $20,000 a day.
And guess what? Trump doesn't want to pay.
-President Trump is reportedly taking out his frustrations
on his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani,
by refusing to pay him for his legal services.
The Washington Post is reporting that President Trump
is trying to stiff Giuliani,
who has spent the past few months
traveling the country, and spreading conspiracy theories
about the November election on behalf of the president.
Giuliani is seeking $20,000 per day in fees.
The newspaper says the president has not only refused to pay
Giuliani's legal fees,
but has told aides that all reimbursement requests
for travel and other expenses need to go through him.
-Impeachment was great, but there really is
no more perfect way for this to end than Trump stiffing Rudy.
The guy spent all that time flying to state capitols,
rounding up witnesses from the bars
at TGI Fridays and Buffalo Wild Wings,
and now, Trump won't even reimburse him.
[ As Trump ] "Also, you owe me for the time I called into the hearing.
It went over on minutes.
Because, Rudy, you're not friends, and you're not family,
so those minutes are costly."
[ Normal voice ] And poor Rudy needed that money for the hair transplant.
[ As Giuliani ] "Please, boss, I'm begging you,
don't make me go back to the mud water."
[ Normal voice ] This is like the end of "The Sixth Sense,"
but instead of Bruce Willis
realizing he's been dead the whole time,
it's Donald Trump realizing that Rudy has,
the whole time, been a bad lawyer.
[ As Trump ] "Oh, no.
Wait a second.
He was a bad lawyer."
[ Normal voice ] Nothing Trump or Republicans say or do from here on out
should be taken seriously, unless they uniformly
and unequivocally acknowledge the reality
that the election was not rigged,
and that Joe Biden won, and apologize for their roles
in spreading lies and conspiracy theories
fomenting the insurrection we saw last week.
Unfortunately, as we saw yesterday,
too many of them have walled themselves off from reality.
They live in a deranged fantasy world of grievance,
and victimhood, lies,
conspiracy theories, and...
-Bullcrap.
This has been "A Closer Look."
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