Seth Meyers Makes Hilarious Game Of Thrones Joke About Trump’s ‘Crazy’ Tweets In The Middle Of Comey Hearing
Seth Meyers slammed Donald Trump for his “crazy” Twitter behavior in the middle of the FBI Director’s Congressional Testimony today.
“The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election—and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts,” Comey told Congress.”
“That is a huge, huge deal, and yet, only 60 days into this administration, you hear that and you’re like, meh,” Meyers joked. “At this point, Melania would have to take Trump on a high-speed chase in a Ford Bronco for us to say, ‘This is unexpected! This is a twist I didn’t see coming!’”
Meyers then played a series of clips of Comey testifying before Congress saying “our practice is not to confirm the existence of ongoing investigations. We just cannot do our work well or fairly if we start talking about it while we’re doing it…some folks may want to make comparisons to past instances where the Department of Justice and the FBI have spoken about the details of some investigations.”
“Yeah, I know at least one person who might,” said Meyers, before showing a photo of Hillary Clinton on the screen.
“I’m not saying Comey cost Clinton the election, but his name is definitely on the list that Hillary mutters like Arya Stark when she’s walking in the woods: James Comey, WikiLeaks, The Hound, Anthony Weiner!”
“Even crazier,” noted Meyers, “while the hearing was still happening, Trump tweeted—Trump tweeted from the president’s official account!—‘The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.’”
“I haven’t been following anybody on Twitter while I’ve been sitting here,” said Comey. “We’ve offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact because it’s never something that we looked at.”
“Witnesses in a hearing are fact-checking the president’s tweets about that hearing during a hearing. They might as well just throw to Ernie, Kenny, and Charles,” joked Meyers, referring to TNT’s Inside the NBA troika.
Meyers also added, “All of this, of course, raises the question once again of where the president gets his information, because we are now at the point where the crazy things the president says are making their way into the halls of Congress, and wasting the time of allies, intelligence officials, and the FBI director.”
