Trump once again dismissed the accusations that he was using his position of power to pressure a foreign government into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son as a “witch hunt”
President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his attempts to justify a phone call with Ukraine’s president in which he reportedly pushed for an investigation into one of his chief political rivals, maintaining that he‘s merely concerned about stamping out corruption.
Trump also said he was “not at all” taking seriously the threat of impeachment in light of the latest revelations and again insisted that everything he said to President Volodymyr Zelensky during a late July phone call had been above board.ADD TO GOOGLE CALENDAR But on Sunday, Trump appeared to acknowledge for the first time that he raised the subject in his call with the newly elected leader.
“These people are stone cold Crooked,” Trump said of his detractors in a tweet, before accusing the whistleblower of getting unspecified facts wrong.
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