Donald Trump angrily proclaimed his innocence on Friday after his director of national intelligence blocked Congress from knowing about a whistle-blower's complaint alleging high-level misconduct, possibly related to the president trying to use Ukraine to damage Joe Biden.
Speaking to reporters alongside Australian Prime Minster Scott Morrison, Trump called the story 'ridiculous' and insisted it was driven by a 'partisan' accuser.
But he admitted: 'I don't know the identity of the whistle-blower. I just hear it's a partisan person, meaning it comes from another [political] party.'
News reports have suggested the president pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky in a phone call to aggressively prosecute former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, on corruption charges and used military aid as leverage.
Trump said Friday that 'it doesn’t matter what i discussed,' and insisted that 'someone ought to look into Joe Biden.'
'Fake news doesn’t look into things like that,' he carped, hinting at media partisanship. 'You wouldn't because he's a Democrat.'
Speaking to reporters alongside Australian Prime Minster Scott Morrison, Trump called the story 'ridiculous' and insisted it was driven by a 'partisan' accuser.
But he admitted: 'I don't know the identity of the whistle-blower. I just hear it's a partisan person, meaning it comes from another [political] party.'
News reports have suggested the president pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky in a phone call to aggressively prosecute former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, on corruption charges and used military aid as leverage.
Trump said Friday that 'it doesn’t matter what i discussed,' and insisted that 'someone ought to look into Joe Biden.'
'Fake news doesn’t look into things like that,' he carped, hinting at media partisanship. 'You wouldn't because he's a Democrat.'
Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko by U.S. Embassy Kyiv Ukraine is licensed under Flickr Creative Commons Attribution- NoDerivs 2.0 Generic
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