Bloomberg reports:
President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he would consider releasing a transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which is said to be the subject of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint.
“We’ll make a determination about how to release it, releasing it, saying what we said,” Trump said in Houston, defending his conversation with Zelensky as “perfect.” His remarks came hours after the president suggested that he had discussed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during the call.
“The problem is, when you’re speaking to foreign leaders, you don’t want foreign leaders to feel that they shouldn’t be speaking openly,” Trump added. “And the same thing with an American president. You want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that every single word was going to be going out and going out all over the world.”
Trump admitted to soliciting foreign election interference, also known as another form of voter suppression. This is about Ukraine fabricating, not investigating, claims about Biden’s son. And he admits it because he feels no one will hold him accountable. https://t.co/2Jx5FNVkJ2
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) September 22, 2019
Trump, looking very red, basically admits he asked Ukrainian President Zelensky to look into Biden during call that’s part of whistleblower complaint: “It was largely [about] fact that we don’t want our people like VP Biden & his son creating to the corruption largely in Ukraine” pic.twitter.com/2hvkTbHSJl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2019
TRUMP: “People better find out who these people are that are trying to subvert our country … these are bad people. But the conversation I had w/the president of Ukraine was absolutely a 10. It was perfect. Now, what you have to do is look at the corruption on the Democrat side” pic.twitter.com/4QidDMrt2R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2019