Seth Meyers is certain Trump's non-stop scandals are slowly wearing everyone down


Whenever there's a big scandal unfolding, President Trump works to distract everyone, causing a commotion so no one can remember the original impropriety, Seth Meyers said on Monday's Late Night.
That's likely one reason why he can't stop talking and tweeting about "The Squad," the four Democratic congresswomen of color he's been attacking for more than a week now. Over the weekend and on Monday, Trump said the lawmakers are not capable of "loving" the United States, and called them, among other things, "racist" and "not very smart." So, why the big distraction? It involves Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Meyers said.
Mueller is scheduled to testify in front of two congressional committees on Wednesday, answering questions about his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and obstruction of justice. (Trump scheduled his North Carolina rally last week on the day Mueller was originally set to testify.) Mueller will most likely be asked about the Justice Department memo that states a president cannot be indicted while sitting in office, and whether Trump would have been indicted had it not been for those guidelines — something Meyers finds bonkers. "That's right, Trump can't be indicted because of a memo written in 1973," he said. "People ignore memos every day. We sent out 15 memos, yet Devon is still microwaving fish in the break room."
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On top of the Mueller testimony, court documents unsealed last week in Michael Cohen's case show the president knew Cohen was making hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump. That development "wasn't even in the Top 10 news stories last week," Meyers said. "This is how he wears us down. It's like being in a zombie movie — anybody can outrun one zombie, but when your city is crawling with zombies, you're like f--k it, just eat me." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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