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Trump repeats debunked Ukraine claim a day after Hill's tough testimony | TheHill

posted onNovember 23, 2019
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Article snippet: "They gave the server to CrowdStrike or whatever it’s called, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server," Trump told the hosts of "Fox & Friends." "A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine," he said. "Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?" "Are you sure they did that?" co-host Steve Doocey asked. "That’s what the word is," Trump responded. "That’s what I asked actually on my phone call, you know. I asked it very point-blank because we’re looking for corruption. There’s tremendous corruption. Why should we be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to countries when there’s this kind of corruption?" CrowdStrike is a U.S. company that was hired to investigate the hack of Democratic servers. The comments reflect Trump's insistence on clinging to a conspiracy theory that some of his top advisers have called baseless and that has helped land him in an impeachment inquiry. Trump's remarks on Friday were remarkable given the high-profile testimony of Hill, who has authored a book about Russian President MORE.  Hill on Thursday asked lawmakers on the Intelligence Committee that in the course of their work they "please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests." "The fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," she testified. "Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that ... Link to the full article to read more

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