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Stephen Colbert Opens ‘The Late Show’ by Expressing ‘Grief for My Beautiful Country’ After Trump Rally Shooting
Stephen Colbert kicked off Monday's live edition of "The Late Show" with a pre-taped opener about the weekend assassination attempt on Donald Trump,
“The United States came close to a great tragedy on Saturday, when at a political rally down in Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old gunman shot and nearly killed a former president and the man who today became the 2024 Republican nominee. “The man who fired the shots seemed to have conflicted or confusing motivations, at least by the standards of today’s stark left and right divide,” he noted, pointing that the shooter was “someone barely out of boyhood,” and who reportedly donated to a Democratic group in 2021, then registered as a Republican that same year. After the opening, Colbert returned with a true monologue, and took advantage of the live nature of the episode to comment on the speeches, gaffes and awkward moments throughout night one of the Republican National Convention.
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