NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist literature but a victim of Trump’s “naked authoritarianism” and East German-like desire to eliminate dissent.
Meyers transitioned from Trump’s recent White House event with Elon Musk and Tesla cars to the Khalil story by declaring, “This is how oligarchy works. If you’re favored by the regime, you get an infomercial paid for by taxpayers. But if you say something the regime doesn’t like, you get disappeared in the middle of the night without due process or an accusation…
