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Axios reports:
President Trump told House Republicans that he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the urging of Energy Secretary Rick Perry — a call Trump claimed he didn’t even want to make. Trump made these comments during a conference call with House members on Friday, according to 3 sources on the call. Per the sources, Trump rattled off the same things he has been saying publicly — that his call with Zelensky was “perfect”and he did nothing wrong.
But he then threw Perry into the mix and said something to the effect of: “Not a lot of people know this but, I didn’t even want to make the call. The only reason I made the call was because Rick asked me to. Something about an LNG [liquefied natural gas] plant,” one source said, recalling the president’s comments. 2 other sources confirmed the first source’s recollection.
Fox News reports:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry denies ever mentioning the Bidens during discussions with Ukrainian officials or with President Trump, according to reports.
Perry’s name has come up in connection with the Trump-Ukraine phone call saga, after news outlet Axios reported that Trump told House Republicans he made the July phone call to the Ukrainian president based on Perry’s recommendation.
The controversy surrounding the call centers on allegations that Trump requested Ukraine officials investigate business dealings in the country by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as part of a “quid pro quo” arrangement for Ukraine to secure U.S military funding.
They’ll need a bigger bushttps://t.co/Bc70rwIFLs
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 5, 2019
EVOLUTION OF A TREASON DEFENSE
The whistleblower lied.
The whistleblower is a spy.
The whistleblower is a Democract.
We did it, sure, but to fight corruption.
We do this w/ALL hostile foreign powers.
Mike Pence was more involved than I was.
Rick Perry made me do it.— Greg Olear (@gregolear) October 6, 2019
Perry did encourage Trump to speak to the new president of Ukraine — “to discuss matters related to their energy security and economic development,” Perry spokeswoman says.
But Perry wasn’t on Trump’s call Zelensky, and didn’t ask him to mention Bidens. https://t.co/jqFzt23HTN
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 6, 2019
The arguments on Ukraine right now – there was no quid pro quo, we always trade x for y, we were just fighting corruption, the phone call was perfect, Rick Perry made me do it – are really stair steps of dumbness.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) October 6, 2019
“Rick Perry made me do it” is *really* out there as an argument.
Can’t even call it a “defense,” because it’s not a defense to a crime (or high crime) to say an employee asked you to do it.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) October 6, 2019