Hawley has drawn widespread derision since the committee on Jan. 6 released video at a hearing Thursday showing him fleeing the U.S. Capitol during the 2021 riot, shortly after giving a fist-pump salute to rioters outside.
“This weekend, at the right-wing Turning Point USA summit, we heard from Missouri senator and star of the new movie ‘Fascist Gump’ Josh Hawley,” Colbert said Monday on “The Late Show.”
During his speech at the Florida convention, Hawley boasted that he opposed President Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania’s Electoral College. Hawley did so even after a mob of Donald Trump supporters besieged the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results.
“I just want to say to all these liberals and the liberal media, in case you haven’t gotten the message yet: I’m not sorry. And I’m not backing down. I won’t apologize. I will not shrink. I’m not going to run from you,” Hawley told the crowd.
“Yes. He will never run from his enemies,” Colbert said. “In fact, here he is on January 6th, bravely moonwalking in peril.”
Watch the roast below on “The Late Show”:
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