Seth Meyers perfectly sums up Trump's nonsensical whistleblower excuses

Giving Nancy Pelosi an imaginary demotion wasn't even the worst of Thursday.
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Seth Meyers perfectly sums up Trump's nonsensical whistleblower excuses
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In Thursday night's A Closer Look, Seth Meyers imagines Rudy Giuliani's four-second Law & Order episode, as well as the scenario where Nancy Pelosi ends up as president — but mostly he takes you through a hilariously, bleakly simple summary of Trump's Ukraine call, alleged cover-up, and increasingly nonsensical excuses.

"It was so obvious people caught on to it immediately," Meyers says. "The president had a phone call, and then his staff was like, 'Put it in a separate system' and a bunch of people were like, 'Why?' and Trump's staff was like, 'Uh, no reason' and then Rudy Guiliani went on TV, woke up from his nap and screamed, 'We did a cover up!"

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.


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