Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) thought his week as guest host on “The Daily Show” would be uneventful until Donald Trump said he expected to be fired Tuesday.
“And I have only one thing to say about that,” he told the cheering audience. “In the end!”
He also had a question about the news that Trump would be impeached over the Stormy Daniels scandal, in which an adult film actor was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair a decade earlier to run for president.
“Who would have thought Donald Trump would be brought down by a porn star?” churches. “All of us, right? It was pretty predictable: Donald Trump paid Stormy Daniels to keep this story under wraps, and here we are, still talking about it seven years later, so that would be another failed Trump deal.
Franken noted that if Trump is arrested, he would have to go through the process of moving the criminal, fingerprinting and photographing — and he had a hint about how that might happen in his Monday night monologue:
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