Colbert on classified documents: ‘No one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?’

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Stephen Colbert on White House classified documents: ‘How could American be $31tn in debt and yet apparently no one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?’Stephen Colbert on White House classified documents: ‘How could American be $31tn in debt and yet apparently no one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?’Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert tried to get a handle on the slowly unfolding story of classified documents found in Biden’s private offices, afteron Friday. “How could American be $31tn in debt and yet apparently no one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?” The Late show host wondered on Monday evening.

“Apparently all politicians just hoard classified material. I’m starting to wonder how Jimmy Carter insulates all those habitats for humanity.” The new documents include handwritten notes that span Biden’s time in the Senate and as vice-president. “The Senate? He joined the Senate, no lie, 50 years ago,” Colbert laughed. “Those notes are ancient. One of them was ‘find out who put the bop in the bop-shoo-bop-shoo-bop.’

 

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