‘Hell Yes!’ Stephen Colbert Revels in House Vote to Hold Mark Meadows in Criminal Contempt

Stephen Colbert could not help but let out a “hell yes!” after the House voted to hold Mark Meadows in criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with its investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Meadows, who served as chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, specifically refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the House’s January 6 select committee. While he has handed over documents he has refused to appear before the committee himself.

“Yes, hell yes! Criminal contempt — and the rest of us can just keep holding him in regular contempt,” Colbert said on Wednesday’s Late Show. “But only two Republicans voted for it!”

Colbert went on to say that aside from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), the Republican party “doesn’t want you to know what happened on January 6th.”

Colbert went after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who defended Meadows as a “good man” and his “friend” while on the House floor on Tuesday night, calling the vote “as wrong as it gets.”

“No, as wrong as it gets is ignoring sexual abuse in the showers at Ohio State,” Colbert shot back. “Never forget.”

“The Republican caucus is an accessory to this coup, and we recently got more evidence of that in the form of text messages to Mark Meadows, like this one received on Jan. 7 from a Republican lawmaker: ‘Yesterday was a terrible day,’” Colbert added. “Well, I mean, at least we can all agree on that.’”

“So, who sent these messages?” Colbert continued. “Well, the identity of these lawmakers was not being disclosed, so people on Twitter are now guessing names like Paul Gosar, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley — and you can play the home version in the fun new game ‘Clue-less.'”

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