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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump: "I had a simple and very nice call. It wasn't bad, it was very legal and very good."
@realDonaldTrump
Obama loving (wrote Obama book) Peter Baker of the Failing New York Times, married to an even bigger Trump Hater than himself, should not even be allowed to write about me. Every story is a made up disaster with sources and leakers that dont even exist. I had a simple and very..
7:20 AM · Sep 27, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
.....nice call with with the new President of Ukraine, it could not have been better or more honorable, and the Fake News Media and Democrats, working as a team, have fraudulently made it look bad. It wasnt bad, it was very legal and very good. A continuing Witch Hunt!
7:20 AM · Sep 27, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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leftstreet
(36,081 posts)Wut?
and they use to cover it up by using another server????? WTF
At least some of us pay attention to facts and the truth.
leftstreet
(36,081 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)anything about good, honor or legality! Just think exactly the opposite of what he says and you have truth.
Six117
(205 posts)NT
Raven
(13,872 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Just because he said, "that's a nice country you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.....right Mr. Putin?"
tanyev
(42,360 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)He masks his stupidity with a bully's demeanor, has absolutely no grasp of the law, and can't express himself in words most of us learned after third grade.
Without a network of protectors, this man would have already been led to the gallows.
dalton99a
(81,070 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Now its downgraded to "very legal" and "very good"....looks like the Kelly Blue Book value of Trump's excuse was down graded!!!
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)He is calling this a "Witch Hunt" at 6:20AM ET. The President of the U.S. starting in at 6:20AM.???
Pachamama
(16,875 posts)Be complimented when someone of Donald Trump's "character" makes a critique of you like that....
dalton99a
(81,070 posts)Soon after President Trump put the phone down that summer day, the red flags began to go up. Rather than just one head of state offering another pro forma congratulations for recent elections, the call turned into a bid by Mr. Trump to press a Ukrainian leader in need of additional American aid to do us a favor and investigate Democrats.
The alarm among officials who heard the exchange led to an extraordinary effort to keep too many more people from learning about it. In the days to come, according to a whistle-blower complaint released on Thursday, White House officials embarked on a campaign to lock down the record of the call, removing it from the usual electronic file and hiding it away in a separate system normally used for classified information.
But word began to spread anyway, kicking off a succession of events that would eventually reveal details of the call to the public and has now put Mr. Trump at risk of being impeached by a Democrat-led House for abusing his power and betraying his office. The story of the past two months is one of a White House scrambling to keep secrets to protect a president willing to cross lines others would not, only to find the very government he frequently disparages expose him.
The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call, the whistle-blower, a C.I.A. official who once worked at the White House, wrote in his complaint, which was declassified and made public by the House Intelligence Committee.
They told me, he added, that there was already a discussion ongoing with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials retelling, that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain.
But while the White House disparaged the whistle-blowers complaint as full of secondhand information and media-reported events, it did not directly deny the sequence of events as outlined.
Moreover, other officials amplified the narrative on Thursday with details that were not in the complaint. For instance, they said, at one point an order was given to not distribute the reconstructed transcript of Mr. Trumps call electronically, as would be typical. Instead, copies were printed out and hand delivered to a select group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-ukraine-timeline.html