John Oliver devoted the overwhelming majority of HBO’s Sunday broadcast of “Last Week Tonight” to breaking down two of President Trump’s closest advisors, his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.
“Let’s set aside potential conflicts of interest between their business side and the administration, and instead, let’s focus on just two basic questions,” Oliver posed to the audience. ” Is Ivanka really the moderating presence people claim, and what in Jared’s background justifies such a gigantic White House portfolio.”
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Ultimately, Oliver ended the segment by claiming it wasn’t an “evisceration” of the two because he “does not know enough about them to eviscerate them.”
“Just like you don’t know enough about them to justify putting any real hopes in them,” he continued. “It is dangerous to think about them as a moderating influence, as reassuring as that may feel.”
“If they are the reason you sleep well at night, then you should probably still be awake.”