TRUMP, on military aid to Ukraine: “Remember this, they got their money and they got it early.' TRUMP: “They got their money long before schedule.” THE FACTS: They got the money months late.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave a false account Wednesday of some of the circumstances that got him impeached.
A look at some of Trump's claims from the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, and statements by others in the matter:TRUMP, on military aid to Ukraine: “Remember this, they got their money and they got it early." — interview Wednesday with Fox Business Network.THE FACTS: They got the money months late.
The White House released the account of the conversation on Sept. 25. Schiff gave his account on Sept. 26, while leading a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the matter, as the panel chairman. The rough transcript of the call, to which the White House tweet links, actually shows Trump repeatedly pressing Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden and Democrats. He did not demand in that call that Zelenskiy “announce” it. He pressed him to conduct it.
Gordon Sondland, Trump's EU ambassador and a point man in the effort to get Ukraine to do what the president wanted, testified in Schiff's hearings that Trump didn't actually care if the Ukrainians followed through on a probe. He just cared that an investigation be announced, he said.TRUMP, on Ukraine aid: “There's something else I'm always stressing. Why isn't Germany and France and U.K.
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