Ted Lieu
@tedlieu

How do we know the re-election campaign of @realDonaldTrump is getting desperate? Because I just got this in the mail.



https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1179181129808564224

Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews

The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
#Russia

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1178671097497169920

Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto

—>>IC Inspector General contradicts Trump/GOP claim whistleblower had only secondhand into stating, he/she had “...direct knowledge of certain alleged conduct, and that the Complainant has subject matter expertise related to much of the material information provided”.

6:22 PM · Sep 30, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1178797345129017349

President Donald Trump begged Russia for election help from a podium in 2016. It prompted a huge investigation by a special counsel that took up the vast majority of Trump’s presidency. It’s unclear if that scandal ever helped educate Trump on why it wasn’t acceptable. Trump then asked Ukraine to help him find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.

It was then announced Monday that Trump asked Australia for information that they provided to special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into the Russia scandal.

It goes beyond Australia, Evan Perez said on CNN. Trump reportedly requested information from multiple countries who cooperated with Mueller and the investigation.

Trump has waged a war against the Mueller investigation to find the source of the beginning. Just prior to Mueller being named as a special counsel, Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey and told NBC News anchor Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/it-wasnt-just-australia-trump-asked-for-help-investigating-robert-mueller-probe-from-multiple-countries/

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1

Breaking via NYT: Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent call to help Attorney General Barr gather information for a Justice Dept. inquiry that Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1178766673538625537

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?

8:12 AM · Sep 30, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178643854737772545

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/republican-house-minority-leader-goes-down-in-epic-flames-during-60-minutes-interview/

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had an embarrassing moment on “60 Minutes” Sunday, when co-host Scott Pelley read the concerning excerpt from the transcript of the call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine.

McCarthy was asked about Trump’s quote, “I would like you to do us a favor, though.”

“You just added another word,” McCarthy claimed.

“No, it’s in the transcript,” Pelley corrected him.

“He said- ‘I’d like you to do a favor, though’?” McCarthy asked.

“Yes, it’s in the White House transcript,” Pelley explained to McCarthy.