Melanie Lynskey | Trump Held in Contempt, Endorses Nonexistent Person Named "J.D. Mandel": A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at a judge ruling that Trump will remain in contempt of court after failing to comply with a subpoena in a fraud investigation as more bombshell text messages emerged implicating more GOP members of Congress in the attempted coup on January 6.
Then, Melanie Lynskey talks about playing a former cannibal on Yellowjackets; her husband, Jason Ritter, attempting to scare her and their daughter; and trying to pull off wigs with Jessica Biel in the series Candy.
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new poll, just 35% of college students said they like Elon Musk more than |
| 0:07.5 | other mega billionaires said, Musk, oh yeah, how much to buy college? |
| 0:13.8 | Not just yours, the whole idea. |
| 0:17.1 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:25.6 | with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to actor Melanie Linsky, but first a closer |
| 0:30.8 | look. |
| 0:31.8 | A judge ruled on Friday that Donald Trump will remain in contempt of court after failing |
| 0:44.7 | to comply with his subpoena in a fraud investigation as more bombshell text messages emerged, implicating |
| 0:50.1 | more GOP members of Congress and the attempted coup on January 6th. |
| 0:54.3 | So Trump endorsed and non-existent person for Senate in Ohio. |
| 0:57.1 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:03.8 | As we have established for a long time now, one of the things Trump did to the modern GOP |
| 1:08.1 | is he weirdified it. |
| 1:09.4 | He unleashed his army of mafia, bobblehead goons, and freaks, and now the Republican party |
| 1:14.4 | is an institution just filled with weirdos obsessed with things like cocaine-fueled orgies, |
| 1:20.2 | Disney, erotica, and testicle tanning, an example of one of those weirdos is his former |
| 1:25.3 | personal attorney, Annette Bliss Wonder, Rudy Giuliani. |
| 1:28.1 | Now we have shown you clips over the years of Rudy Giuliani saying and doing many bizarre |
| 1:32.3 | things, but I have to say this latest might be the weirdest yet. |
| 1:35.8 | Rudy is on cameo where you can pay him to say things and to advertise that fact, he posted |
| 1:41.4 | this video online today. |
| 1:42.9 | I'm Rudy Giuliani, if you want to have a really nice conversation or a birthday greeting |
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