As more Democrats come out in support of impeachment proceedings, President Trump dismisses effort and revives some of the same pushback he used during former Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation.
in military aid for Ukraine in the days before a late July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump told reporters Tuesday that his request to withhold the aid was due to his desire to see greater European contributions to Ukraine’s defense, and not linked to whether the country would investigate the Biden family, which media outlets have reported Trump brought up on the call with Zelensky.“When you see the call, the readout of the call, which I assume you'll see at some point, you'll understand,” Trump said Tuesday. “That call was perfect.
“The media pushed the Russia lie for almost three years with no evidence, and now they are doing it all over again,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told NBC News in a statement Monday. “These allegations are completely false, but because the media wants this story to be true so badly, they’ll once again manufacture a frenzy and drive ignorant, fake stories to attack this President.”
"They’ve always wanted to impeach him, and they’ve just been shopping around for an excuse," said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.
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