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Colbert Shreds Trump for His Biggest Lie Yet

September 20, 2016 at 9:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Stephen Colbert: “You don’t get to flog this issue for five years and then act like you’re correcting everybody else! We’re not crazy, we were there. We all saw you do it. Even the people who support you saw you do it, it’s why they support you!”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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