Newly disciplined Trump sticks to script as White House hammers ‘no quid pro quo’ line

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It was the most disciplined and focused episode so far of “chopper time,” as President Trump’s informal South Lawn news conferences have come to be known.

With the propeller of Marine One whirring in the background, Trump used handwritten notes to quote his European Union ambassador who minutes earlier had testified that the president wanted no “quid pro quo” with Ukraine.

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