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Trump: Written Answers from Whistleblower Unacceptable
By VOA News
Updated November 04, 2019 04:05 PM
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Nov. 3, 2019.
U.S. President Donald Trump, faced with a mounting impeachment inquiry, said Monday that written answers are not good enough from the whistleblower who first disclosed that he had pressed Ukraine to pursue investigations of one of his chief 2020 Democratic political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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@JBWolfsthal
This is an outrageous lie. I know. I handed over the nuclear office at the NSC. Shameless and disgusting. @PressSec should be fired.
Abby D. Phillip
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@abbydphillip
WH Press Sec Stephanie Grisham claims Obama aides left 'you will fail" notes in offices for Trump aides: “We came into the WH, I’ll tell you something. Every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail,’ ‘you aren’t going to make it,’”
09:00 - 19 Nov 2019
Hallie Jackson@HallieJackson
Press Sec., asked about this tweet: “I certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue..." Adds: "I was talking specifically about our experience in the lower press office – nowhere else. I don’t know why everyone is so sensitive!” (via @SallyBronston)
Susan Rice
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@AmbassadorRice
This is another bald faced lie.
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@HallieJackson
Stephanie Grisham also tells NBC: "In fact, I had a lovely note left for me in the East Wing, and I tracked the woman down and thanked her."
10:05 - 19 Nov 2019
@NBCPolitics
NEW: White House senior adviser Stephen Miller had more editorial influence over Breitbart during the 2016 campaign than previously known and attempted to push articles attacking Sen. Rubio, according to a new batch of leaked emails shared with @NBCNews. Stephen Miller planted anti-Rubio stories in Breitbart during 2016 campaign, leaked emails show
@ddale8
Trump quote at Cabinet on freedom of the press: "The press really, in this country, is dangerous. We don't have freedom of the press in this country. We have the opposite. We have a very corrupt media. And I hope they can get their act straight now."
12:38 - 19 Nov 2019