--- title: Colbert Rips Apart Trump's Mueller Report Reaction description: Stephen Colbert has a hot take on Trump's quote in the Mueller Report, questioning the President's innocence in his response. canonical: https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-19T16:06:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:42.790Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Questions Trump's Mueller Report Quote og:description: Stephen Colbert doesn't think Trump's reaction in the Mueller Report is innocent og:url: https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Questions Trump's Mueller Report Quote twitter:description: Stephen Colbert doesn't think Trump's reaction in the Mueller Report is innocent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Tears Into Trump's Mueller Report Response: 'That's Not How an Innocent Person Reacts'  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 19, 2019 4:06 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 19, 2019 4:06 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/5563401/colbert-avocado-trump/) has some questions about the [Mueller Report](http://time.com/5574073/sarah-sanders-mueller-report-lie/). Mainly, he is questioning President Donald Trump’s quote in the report, [released Thursday](http://time.com/5573768/mueller-report-trump-russian-contacts/), which concludes this investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. “We now know how Trump felt about Mueller’s investigation,” Colbert explained during his late night show monologue. “When Jeff Sessions told Trump special counsel had been appointed, Trump slumped back in his chair and said ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f–ked.” It’s quite a quote — and Colbert had a hot take: “I’m guessing that’s not how an innocent person reacts,” he suggested. “Why did Trump think it was terrible?” he went on. “Well, because according to Mueller, even though his report didn’t establish collusion with Russia, Trump was worried a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign that even Trump understood to be crimes… like in that movie _I Know What I Did Last Summer,”_ he joked. Colbert also tore into Attorney General William Barr, criticizing Barr’s choice to preempt the Report’s release by holding a press conference in which he seemed to act in defense of Trump. “Now, if you’ve got nothing to hide, why do you have to set up the Report first?” Colbert questioned. He seemed to think — like many other political analysts — that Barr was acting more as a defense attorney for Trump than as an impartial attorney general. “Protect me Bill. They’ll eat me alive in jail. I’m 70% cheeseburger!” Colbert joked about a hypothetical conversation between Barr and Trump. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Tears Into Trump's Mueller Report Response: 'That's Not How an Innocent Person Reacts'","datePublished":"2019-04-19T16:06:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:42.790Z","description":"\"I'm guessing that's not how an innocent person reacts\"","url":"https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5574104/stephen-colbert-mueller-report/","name":"Stephen Colbert Tears Into Trump's Mueller Report Response: 'That's Not How an Innocent Person Reacts'"}}]}] ```