Politics

John Oliver Dashes Trump Impeachment Hopes: ‘The Likelihood Is That Trump Will Survive This’

John Oliver began the latest edition of his Emmy-winning HBO program, Last Week Tonight, by going over the “absolutely insane” events of the past week, one that began with the revelation—courtesy of The Washington Post—that President Trump shared highly classified information with Russian officials during their White House visit and ended with the commander in chief massaging a mystical orb with the Saudis.

In between, there were The New York Times’ twin scoops: first, that former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a memo that President Trump had asked him to end the investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and then that Trump had told the aforementioned Russian officials in the Oval Office that he fired Comey because he was “a real nut job” and since he’s gone, “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”