'No push, no pressure, no nothing. It's all a hoax,' the president said of the investigation during the press conference.
"I thought we had won, I thought it was over," said President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon regarding an official impeachment inquiry launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday afternoon. The president used familiar language when referring to the inquiry calling it a"hoax," a"witch hunt" and a"lie" created by Democrats because, he said, they can't beat him at the polls.
The impeachment inquiry directly followed revelations that the president had a July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, where he asked the foreign leader have Joe Biden and his family investigated. Trump asked Zelensky to look into why the former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate pushed for a former Ukrainian prosecutor, who had been accused of corruption by the Obama administration, to be ousted.
He also repeated multiple times that all of the conversations he and Pence had with Zelensky were"perfect." U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2019 in New York City. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that the House will launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump."I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation in Ukraine...
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