Bill Clinton Says He’s Holding Out Hope for a Trump ‘Deathbed Conversion’: ‘Think How Wonderful That Would Be’

Former President Bill Clinton told Late Show host Stephen Colbert this week that he was still holding out hope that President-elect Donald Trump would undergo a “deathbed conversion” and change his behavior.

During an interview with Clinton on The Late Show, Tuesday, Colbert asked, “The Supreme Court, since you left, has said that the president enjoys broad immunity for his actions. If you had known that when you were in office, is there anything you would have changed?”

“Let me just say that opinion, in my opinion, should be repealed or drastically confined,” replied Clinton:

And if you want it changed, you probably just have to elect somebody else in the next election and the Supreme Court will change it so fast it’ll make your head swing. I’m pretty sure that if something really grievous happened, the Supreme Court would make a different distinction, otherwise our Constitution has essentially been suspended and we wouldn’t have the rule of law.

Clinton then said, “You know, I was raised in the Baptist church, and I believe in deathbed conversions, so I still think, you know, President Trump could be like Paul on the road to Tarsus [sic]. And think how wonderful that would be.”

While the audience burst into laughter, Clinton appeared to be serious, adding, “Really. If he wanted to be.”

“That would be lovely,” replied Colbert.

The former president concluded, “So I always think in anything like this, you gotta plan for the worst and work for the best.”

Watch above via The Late Show.