Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel spurn Trump, allies for still obsessing over, working to unmask the whistleblower

Seth Meyers had a reminder for President Trump and his allies on Wednesday's Late Night about what happens if someone blows a whistle and it turns out there really is a fire. An anonymous intelligence official filed a complaint, through proper legal channels, on Trump's Ukraine dealings to kick off the House impeachment inquiry, he said, and now "Trump and his allies are fixated on the whistleblower because the actual evidence is damning and they have no response."

"So the whistleblower is the one who tipped everyone off to the fact that something very corrupt had happened, but since then we've seen the notes from the call, we've seen text messages from officials involved in the scheme, we've had Trump and his chief of staff confess on TV, and we've had one witness after another come forward and provide damning testimony," Meyers said. "We already have all the evidence. This is like if during the O.J. trial they not only had the gloves but dozens of witnesses, a tape of O.J. confessing, and a note inside the gloves that said 'If found at crime scene, return to O.J. Simpson, the murderer.' And yet, Trump and his allies remain obsessed with the whistleblower."

Yes, "Republicans are trying to blow the lid off the whistleblower's identity," Jimmy Kimmel said at Kimmel Live. "Today, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the alleged whistleblower's name, because of course he did, and one of Daddy's top apologists, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, is calling on the mainstream media to divulge the name, too."

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Kimmel lingered on Paul, an erstwhile civil libertarian: "Remember the Rand Paul who campaigned on a platform about individual rights to privacy, who staunchly opposed things like wiretapping? Well, he's dead. And the new Rand Paul is a vindictive, spiteful little elf who moved out of the tree where he makes cookies to take up permanent residence in the president's a--." You can watch Kimmel interview Paul's pugilistic "neighbor" below. Peter Weber