I want to start by saying that right now, Republican Senators are writing a health-care bill in secret and, along with Donald Trump, are planning to shove it down America's collective throat—a process that will both hurt said throat and ensure that we can't get the health insurance necessary to fix said throat. It's important that this gets remembered, even as we focus on the investigation into Donald Trump. It's like a vegetables-before-dessert thing.

Which brings us to dessert: Donald Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow did the Sunday shows yesterday, and they did not go well. Now, at first glance, you'd think it would work, because Sekulow does look like the lawyer in every mob movie, but apparently there's more to it than that. You see, Sekulow went on TV trying to sell the insane notion that Donald Trump was not under investigation. This is insane because, as you might remember, Donald Trump himself tweeted that he was under investigation! Hell, the tweet's still up!

So Sekulow was trying to thread a very fine needle (I mean, it's a garbage needle, but the opening is small) and argue that Trump's tweet was simply responding to The Washington Post story and not confirming that there was an investigation. This would have you believe that Donald Trump saw the story, assumed it to be true, tweeted about it, and then discovered it was not true. Seem likely? Yeah, I didn't think so. Also, the fact that Sekulow is there working for Trump is a pretttttty good indication that Trump's being investigated for something. But making it harder to claim he's not is Sekulow LITERALLY CONFIRMING Trump is under investigation seconds before he turns around and claims that he's not being investigated. It's one of the most remarkable and insane television moments I can remember, and I watched Donald Trump win a presidential election.

And if you want to relive the cringe in text form, here's a transcript.

That is obviously the most humiliating thing Sekulow did on TV today, but telling Jake Tapper that Trump admitted he was under investigation because Twitter has a character limit and he couldn't provide additional context?

Now, this is what some legal experts would call "bad law-yuh-in." Granted, all the legal experts I know are just simple southern law-yuhs, but that doesn't mean they don't have sound legal opinions. (Also, I just checked with my fellow GQ politics writer Jay Willis, who agrees with me and is an actual lawyer.)

Watch Now:

What We Know Now From James Comey