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On Sunday, John Oliver kicked off a new episode of his acclaimed HBO series Last Week Tonight by wading into the waters of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s country club in Palm Beach, Florida, that was recently raided by the FBI after the ex-president allegedly took classified documents there from the White House despite his lawyer stating otherwise.
“The fallout from the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago continued, with Trump associates spinning increasingly outlandish rationalizations for why it was OK for him to keep sensitive documents there, including this one,” offered Oliver.
The late-night host then cut to an interview with Trump mouthpiece Rudy Giuliani—who once married his own second cousin—on Newsmax, saying, “If you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents—it’s about destroying them, or hiding them, or giving them to the enemy. It’s not about taking them and putting them in a place that’s roughly as safe as they were in in the first place.”