John Oliver Shares His Deeply Cynical Trump Verdict Take

John Oliver might’ve felt so ecstatic watching the jury convict former President Donald Trump on Thursday, but the late-night host quickly curbed our enthusiasm by predicting that the former president could still somehow win his way back into the White House this November.

Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in a scheme to illegally influence his 2016 presidential election by paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about Trump’s extramarital dalliance with her.

Oliver opened his latest episode of Last Week Tonight on Sunday by reporting: “A New York businessman got into some legal trouble, which was undeniably fun to watch unfold live.”

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