President Trump unloaded on Democrats and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff in his first public statements after acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified in front of Schiff’s committee on Thursday.
Maguire testified in front of the committee over a whistleblower complaint that was filed last month alleging the president applied pressure to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in order to get him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
“Another witch hunt, here we go again,” Trump began. “It’s Adam Schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pious — whatever you want to call them. It’s just really a disgrace. It’s a terrible thing for our country. They can’t do any work. They are frozen, the Democrats. They’re going to lose the election, they know it. That’s why they’re doing it. And it should never be allowed, what’s happened to this president. And despite that, I think I’ve done just about more than any president in his first two and a half years in office.”
“I have to put up with Adam Schiff on an absolutely perfect phone call to the new president of Ukraine,” he continued. “That was a perfect call. But Adam Schiff doesn’t talk about Joe Biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from Ukraine. And then millions of dollars from China. Walking away in a quick meeting, walking with millions of dollars. He doesn’t talk about Joe Biden firing a prosecutor. And if that prosecutor is not fired, he’s not going to give him money from the United States.”
The president called the Democrats’ actions “a disgrace,” adding that “it shouldn’t be allowed” and “there should be a way of stopping it.”
Zelensky and Trump spoke together at the United Nations Wednesday, and the Ukrainian leader was asked about the conversation in question. He said that “nobody pushed me,” and Trump concluded his statements to reporters by reiterating Zelensky’s comment.
