Stephen Colbert set the document immediately after a Donald Trump supporter railed towards him right through his sentencing to 90 days in prison for his position within the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Jason Riddle, who chugged a stolen bottle of wine and took a ebook right through the Trump-incited assault on Jan. 6, 2021, complained to the court docket this week that Colbert had “referred to as me an enemy of the state to a booing crowd,” in line with CNN.
“OK, that isn’t true. That’s now not true,” Colbert clarified on Thursday. “I didn’t name him an enemy of the state. That was once the segue-into-the-roundup roundup.”
The “Overdue Display” host rolled the tape of what he in truth referred to as Riddle in June final yr: “New Hampshire local and man instructing a cryptocurrency magnificence from his mother’s basement.”
The comic then corrected the outline to: “New Hampshire local and man instructing cryptocurrency magnificence … from prison.”
Watch from the eight-minute mark right here: