'Last Week Tonight:' John Oliver tackles Trump's 'monsoon' of scandals (and Clinton's)
We've heard the word "scandal" used more times in this election than we used to hear when we asked a group chat for their Thursday night plans.
When Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned from its hiatus Sunday, the Emmy-winning host took a closer look at some of the sketchy stories surrounding presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Note: This clip is NSFW due to some language.
With regard to Clinton, a recent guest on Between Two Ferns, Oliver touched on Whitewater, Benghazi, and the Swiss file transfer. (If you aren't familiar with the last scandal, you can read about here. Just kidding, Oliver made it up completely.) The show host went into further detail with regard to the Democratic candidate's emails and donations made to the Clinton Foundation.
For Trump, or as Oliver called him "America's wealthiest hemorrhoid," Oliver pointed out Trump's unreleased tax returns, his lack of understanding of what a blind trust is, use of Donald J. Trump Foundation funds, Trump University, and an illegal loan from Trump's dad.
"Look, the point is this campaign has been dominated by scandals, but it is dangerous to think that there is an equal number on both sides," Oliver said. "And you can be irritated by some of Hillary's. That is understandable, but you should then be (expletive) outraged by Trump's."
Oliver compared the presence of a politician's scandals to those sometimes annoying raisins in a cookie. Yes, they obviously have a place among oatmeal varieties, but let's be honest their window of play is narrow. "They shouldn't be there," Oliver said. "They disgust people, but most politicians have at least a few raisins."
While Oliver said Clinton was a cookie with about 10 raisins, he called The Donald a "raisin monsoon" as a raisin shower poured down. "He is ethically compromised to an almost unprecedented degree," Oliver said.
You can watch the 21-minute clip in the video above and blame Oliver if there's a chocolate-covered raisin shortage the next time you go to the movies.