President Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate
Joe Biden and his son numerous times in one mid-summer phone call, "which is a crazy thing to do,"
Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday's Kimmel Live. "And maybe even crazier is the fact that Trump did this on July 25, the day after the Mueller testimony. A day after the conclusion of a major investigation into whether he got help in the
election from a foreign leader, he gets on the phone and asks for help from another foreign leader.""So the bigly question now is whether Trump used financial aid that we give the Ukrainians as a bargaining chip in exchange for investigating his chief political rival," Kimmel said. He went through Trump's various non-denials and angry jabs at the media, then laughed at Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's "startling admission" about his role. "The bottom line is it appears that the president of the
United States used his office to ask foreign country to dig up dirt on an opponent," he said, and
Democrats are seriously considering maybe doing something now while congressional "Republicans are very quiet."
"Yes, Trump asked
Ukraine for election help, or as he put it, 'I was just trying to make Putin jealous,"'
Jimmy Fallon said on The Tonight Show. "Today reporters asked Trump if he did anything wrong. He was like, 'Yeah, I probably should have asked for dirt on
Elizabeth Warren,'" he added. "The whole thing is pretty shocking. We spent years talking about
Russia, it might be Ukraine that takes down Trump. Who saw that coming?"
Late Night's Seth Meyer took a step back to remind viewers "how we got here," starting with Trump saying "in public that he would welcome the help of a foreign government interfering in the 2020 election" as Giuliani "was trying to get Ukraine to do exactly that." He joked through ample confessional interviews from Trump and Giuliani and ended up at impeachment. Watch below.