Seth Meyers says the 'smoking gun' in Ukraine scandal is 'Donald Trump's mouth'
Seth Meyers is in total agreement with the anonymous Republican senator who told The Washington Post that dealing with President Trump's Ukraine scandal "feels like a horror movie."
"Yeah, every minute with Donald Trump feels like a horror movie," Meyers said on Wednesday's Late Night. "That's why Rudy [Giuliani] always looks like he just closed the medicine cabinet and saw the reflection of the killer behind him."
Trump doesn't make it easy for Republicans to defend him, Meyers said, as his denials don't sound credible and new damning evidence seems to come out every day. Trump's constant attempts to explain away his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also aren't helping, he argued, because saying the conversation was "perfect" dozens of times is actually convincing people of the opposite. "When you overcompensate like that, it only makes you sound guiltier," Meyers said.
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"Remember during the Russia investigation when everyone was wondering if there would be a smoking gun?" Meyers said. "Well, this is the smoking gun. It turns out the smoking gun was Donald Trump's mouth the whole time. And his brain, much like a revolver, is only capable of holding six words." (Those words are "witch," "hunt," "huge," "crooked," "wall," and, of course, "perfect.") Watch the video, which includes Meyers trying to make sense of Trump's weird technique for passing out Halloween candy, below. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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