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WASHINGTON President Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on Friday in an effort to invalidate the impeachment inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration, after a week of damaging public hearings.
In a 53-minute phone interview with Dumb Fux & Friends, Mr. Trump accused David Holmes, a political counselor to the American ambassador in Ukraine, of fabricating a phone call between Mr. Trump and the American ambassador to the European Union. Mr. Holmes told impeachment investigators that he had overheard the president ask the ambassador, Gordon D. Sondland, about Ukrainian investigations into his political rivals, a consequential detail in the Democrats impeachment inquiry.
I guarantee you that never took place, Mr. Trump said. He added that he barely knew Mr. Sondland, a wealthy hotelier from Oregon who contributed $1 million to Mr. Trumps inaugural committee. In his own testimony, Mr. Sondland corroborated Mr. Holmess account.
The interview on Friday, broadcast live and commercial-free with a view of the Dumb Fux & Friends hosts speaking by phone to Mr. Trump, gave the president a chance to respond to the damaging revelations of the past week and reprise widely debunked theories and some of his favorite lines of attack.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-attacks-impeachment-inquiry-and-accuses-a-witness-of-lying/ar-BBXasw1?li=BBnb7Kz
They're all lying but you.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Waddle on up to Capitol Hill, get sworn, and testify before the Committee. Bring your documentary evidence, because your unsupported word isn't really persuasive.
Botany
(70,501 posts)aka It took place.
nykym
(3,063 posts)Call log and match up the numbers.