Seth Meyers says the 'smoking gun' in Ukraine scandal is 'Donald Trump's mouth'

Seth Meyers.
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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."

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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 has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.