Last Week Tonight: John Oliver Explains Trump-Ukraine Scandal, Refers To It As “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate”

The events surrounding Donald Trump, Ukraine and a whistleblower gave John Oliver plenty of things to discuss and skewer on Sundays Last Week Tonight.

Oliver started at the very beginning of the scandal, talking about the phone call where Trump asked Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Bidens son Hunter not one, not two, not five — but eight times.

“The only time it makes sense to ask for the same thing eight times in a single phone call is if youre trying to connect with a customer service representative for AT&T,” jokes Oliver.

Trumps latest scandal has the former Celebrity Apprentice host being accused of withholding nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine and using it as leverage to get dirt on Biden. “It is very, very dumb,” points out Oliver. So dumb that he has dubbed this as “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate”, a sequel to Trumps Russian scandal which Oliver referred to as “Stupid Watergate.”

The White House denied Trumps wrongdoing and voluntarily released an account of Trumps call claiming it exonerated him. “It emphatically does not do that,” laughs Oliver.

Oliver points out that Trump explicitly asks for Biden to be investigated and follows it by saying “I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call…and Im also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it”.

“Its impressive just how thorough the abuse of power is looping in someone who is so involved in government that they shouldnt be involved in petty dirt and someone involved in petty dirt that they shouldnt be nowhere near the government,” said Oliver, the former being Barr and the latter being Giuliani.

When the whistleblowers complaint was released, it was clear that the White House worked extremely hard to cover its tracks after the phone call. The notes from the call were stored in a separate codeword-level system for highly classified information.

“Why do that if there wasnt something very bad in there?” asks Oliver. “If you dont want anyone to see something very bad on your computer, everyone knows you just put it in a folder labeled finance records.” Oliver then reveals that his “finance folder” on his computer contains images of hamsters in Speedos which he promises was not a sex thing.

The plot of “Stupid Watergate II” gets “dumber than you can even imagine” as Oliver discusses Ukrainian president Zelensky and his history as a comedian who used to play the President of Ukraine in a sitcom. He then shared a video of one Zelenskys comedy routines where he is seen playing a duet on the piano with what seems to be his…penis.

Oliver continues to point out the absurd people involved in the scandal — mainly Rudy Giuliani. After taking some jabs at his cousin/first Read More – Source