'There is nothing -- not one thing -- currently in the public sphere that shows the whistleblower complaint is, as Trump claimed Wednesday, 'wrong' or that the whistleblower 'made it up,'' writes CillizzaCNN
"The only reason that I put out, and I did it with the approval with the Ukraine, by the way, otherwise I wouldn't have done it, was because the whistleblower was so dishonest," Trump said, adding:"When a whistleblower takes a very nice, innocent ... the whistleblower wrote not that conversation. He wrote a vicious conversation. In other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest." .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Later Wednesday, Trump doubled down:"I have a lot of respect for whistleblowers, but only when they're real."The problem with the President's explanation is not only that it's wrong. It's also that the truth is the exact opposite of what he says it is.
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