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Trump: Here Are Some Big Updates On My Latest Fake Scandal

John Bickley
Trump: Here Are Some Big Updates On My Latest Fake Scandal
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President Trump offered a couple of updates Sunday on the latest “fake news”-driven scandal that Democrats have added to their ever-growing list of reasons to impeach him ASAP: It turns out that the whistleblower whose claims sparked the latest conflagration doesn’t actually have any firsthand knowledge of the call, and the Ukrainian government is denying that Trump tried to pressure them — and says they felt really good about the call from their end. The “real story,” said Trump, is former Vice President Joe Biden strong-arming Ukraine to oust a prosecutor that investigated his son’s company.

“Now the Fake News Media says I ‘pressured the Ukrainian President at least 8 times during my telephone call with him,'” Trump tweeted Sunday night. “This supposedly comes from a so-called ‘whistleblower’ who they say doesn’t even have a first hand account of what was said. More Democrat/Crooked Media con.”

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