Trump hits Nancy Pelosi for handing out subpoenas “like they’re cookies” compared with how former Speaker Paul Ryan handled subpoena requests
President Donald Trump went into battle mode on Wednesday, lobbing insults at his Democratic investigators, tussling with reporters, and dismissing the impeachment probe and other oversight efforts as “bullshit.”
But it came as the impeachment inquiry that Pelosi only formally announced a week ago has progressed rapidly since the White House’s release of its account of a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In the now-infamous call, Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Biden is among the top candidates vying to run against Trump next year.
“He is a shifty dishonest guy who was critical of one of the great secretary of States. … The most honorable person, Mike Pompeo, and this guy was negative on Mike Pompeo. He can't — you know there's an expression, he couldn’t carry his blank strap,” Trump said, apparently self-bleeping “jock strap.”
poster="https://static.politico.com/7b/60/b971ae0445be9182e95d2f4c40fd/pelosi-schiff-presser-11-28-19-am-11-31-07-am-pelosi-whistleblower-redo-2019-10-02.jpg" The Times’ report, which came out moments before Trump’s news conference, indicates no such thing; according to the Times, Schiff was made aware of the outlines of the future whistleblower’s concerns when the anonymous intel official approached an aide for the House Intelligence Committee.
Shortly after, a Finnish reporter drew gasps and laughs in the room when she asked her president, “because it is the biggest issue here at the moment,” if he could detail what kinds of favors Trump had asked him for.
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