This is hilarious!
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The pressure and stress of the House's impeachment inquiry and ongoing questions about his conversations with the Ukrainian president seem to be getting to President Donald Trump. Otherwise, it's hard to explain his angry and raw press conference alongside the president of Finland on Wednesday.
1. "Look at all the press that you attract, can you believe this? That's very impressive."
Yes, this is the first thing that Trump said to the Finnish president when they entered the news conference. Tell me again how Trump doesn't like the media... And away we go!
2. "And this is Ambassador Pence. No relationship to our great vice president. Hard to believe. Nobody believes that, but that's true."
Two people with the same last name who aren't related. Will the wonders never cease???
3. "This is a hoax. This is the greatest hoax."
You might think the Ukraine investigation is just a very good hoax. You'd be wrong. It's the greatest hoax!
4. "But we'll work together with Shifty Schiff and Pelosi and all of them, and we'll see what happens."
Trump is referring here to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the Speaker of the House -- in front of a foreign leader. Very cool and very respectful!
5. "I had a great call with the president of Ukraine. It was 100%. You have the transcript."
When people ask me how my day went, I am going to start responding "it was 100%." Also, what the White House released of Trump's call with Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't a transcript. In fact, the rough transcript contained this note: "A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion." Good times.
6. "And then Schiff went up and he got -- as the chairman of the committee, got up and related a call that didn't take place. He made up the language."
He did not. In Schiff's opening statement, he paraphrased the Ukraine transcript. Before he did so, Schiff said this: "In not so many words, this is the essence of what the President communicated" before he starts talking. Trump can repeat this claim as often as he wants, but it doesn't make it true.
7. "I think he had some kind of a mental breakdown. But he went up to the microphone and he read a statement from the President of the United States as if I were on the call."
To be clear: Trump is accusing Schiff of having a "mental breakdown" because of what the California Democrat said in his opening statement at the testimony of acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. A statement that Schiff made very clear was not intended to be a verbatim recounting of what Trump said.
Much more at:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/donald-trump-press-conference/index.html