Mitch McConnell Contradicts Trump's Claim They Spoke About His Ukraine Call

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  1. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Mitch McConnell Contradicts Trump’s Claim They Spoke About His Ukraine Call

    The president said the Senate majority leader spoke with him and called it “the most innocent phone call he’s read.”


    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he doesn’t recall any conversations with President Donald Trump about the Ukraine phone call ― contrary to the president’s claim that McConnell had said the call was completely “innocent.”

    “The president has said that you told him that his phone call with Ukrainian president was ‘perfect’ and ‘innocent,’” a reporter said to McConnell during a Capitol Hill press briefing Tuesday. “Do you believe that the president has handled this Ukrainian situation perfectly?”



    “We’ve not had any conversations on that subject,” McConnell responded. When asked if that indicated the president was lying about that claim, McConnell said “you’ll have to ask him. I don’t recall any conversations with the president about that phone call.”

    While speaking to reporters on the South Lawn on Oct. 3, Trump said that he and McConnell had spoken directly about the phone call, according to the official White House transcript of Trump’s remarks.

    “He put out a statement that said that was the most innocent phone call he’s read. And I spoke to him about it, too,” the president said.

    “He said, ‘That was the most innocent phone call that I’ve read.’ I mean, give me a break. Anybody that reads it says the same thing,” Trump added.

    McConnell had previously urged the White House to release the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy, according to two internal sources cited by The Washington Post.

    The call summary released by the White House was the catalyst for an impeachment inquiry looking at whether Trump withheld nearly $400 million in foreign aid to Ukraine unless Ukrainian officials investigated his potential 2020 presidential rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. It is illegal to solicit foreign involvement in U.S. elections, and investigations have yielded no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.

     
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  2. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

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    Cuddles

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  6. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    Trump constantly lies, so this is just another lie, business as usual.
     
  7. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    The end of Trump with Mitch could be like Joe Pesci in Casino where he went so over the top the other mobsters got scared of him. Of course Trump being ousted won't silence him, he will seek revenge.
     
  8. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    What was I thinking, they have Gohmert and gang.

    House Republicans stormed the hearing room where Pentagon official was testifying


    As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper was sitting down to testify, the roughly couple dozen Republicans stormed through the three different doors, a source in the room said.

    Rep. Bradley Byrne yelled in committee Chair Adam Schiff's face, but Schiff didn't engage. Other Democrats, including Val Demings, screamed back at both Byrne and Rep. Louie Gohmert, who were yelling about the process.

    "It was closest thing I've seen around here to mass civil unrest as a member of Congress," according to a source in the room.
    Cooper left the room while the Republicans refused to leave.

    The source says the Capitol Police and sergeant at arms have been consulted as members refuse to leave the room.


    https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-23-2019/index.html
     
  9. easymon1

    easymon1

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  10. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    This is pathetic, I thought this shit could Halley in post Soviet Union countries, but in us congress. Awefull.
     
    #10     Oct 23, 2019