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."
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