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'Sue Her?' — Trump Floats Legal Action Against Pelosi for Claiming Schiff Didn’t Fake Ukraine Dialogue

posted onOctober 4, 2019
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Article snippet: “Nancy Pelosi today, on GStephanopoulos strongly called her out. Sue her?” the president wrote on Twitter. President Trump’s tweet came in response to Pelosi’s Wednesday interview with ABC News in which she asserted Schiff “didn’t make it up” when he performed the fake conversation between the two world leaders during his opening statement at a committee hearing featuring Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. A partial transcript of the exchange is as follows: During the September 26th hearing, the House Intelligence Chairman performed what he claimed was “the essence” of what President Trump discussed with Zelensky: Of course, words such as “political opponent,” and “make up dirt,” were absent from the Trump-Zelensky transcript, which, in a nod to transparency, was released last week. Conversely, the actual transcript shows the president encouraged the leader of Ukraine to “call me more often” and mentioned former Vice President and 2020 White House candidate Joe Biden just once. A partisan CIA officer who filed a so-called “whistleblower” complaint regarding the pair’s call erroneously alleged that Biden was namedropped eight times. The complaint sparked House Democrats to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. Speaking to reporters at the White House Wednesday, President Trump slammed Schiff as a “lowlife” and demanded that he resign from Congress. “Congressman Adam Schiff should resign for the Crime of, after reading a transcri... Link to the full article to read more

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