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From the new Republican health-care proposal to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee had a lot to cover on Wednesday during her first episode in weeks.

As for Trump’s claim with no evidence that President Barack Obama wiretapped phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, the TBS late-night host compared it to “white guy shoots himself … tries to pin it on a black guy. When has that ever happened?”

The news cycle has offered plenty of fodder for late-night comedians to work on their political barbs, but it’s still unclear which of them, if any, will headline the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. We do know that Bee will be in Washington that weekend for her alternative event, which she has described as intended for “journalists and non-irritating celebrities from around the world.”

On Wednesday, she pointed to claims that Obama is behind a “silent coup” previously put forth by conservative radio host Mark Levin, and picked up by Breitbart News in an article that made the rounds at the White House last week.

“Just one of those classic coups where the president uses the might of the government to spy on an opponent, then doesn’t release any of the information he found, lets the other guy win and then isn’t president anymore,” Bee exclaimed. “Classic coup. Exactly what the word means!”

She added: “If there’s no one brave enough on his staff to tell their boss there’s only one ‘p’ in ‘tap,’ there certainly isn’t anyone brave enough to tell him Obama isn’t running a coup.”