I want President Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on.’”įacts First: Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, did testify that Trump told him this – but Sondland nonetheless said that, in his own opinion, there was indeed a quid pro quo. Trump wrote, “Ambassador Sondland testified that I told him: ‘No quid pro quo. Whistleblowers do not have an obligation to speak publicly after filing their anonymous complaints. Trump claimed the whistleblower “disappeared” because “they got caught, their report was a fraud.”įacts First: There is no evidence the whistleblower has disappeared, let alone that they have vanished because they were shown to be inaccurate. In fact, the rough transcript released by Trump himself showed that the whistleblower’s three primary allegations about the call were correct or very close to correct. Trump decried “the so-called whistleblower who started this entire hoax with a false report of the phone call that bears no relationship to the actual phone call that was made.”įacts First: The whistleblower’s account of Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been proven highly accurate. We’re not finished going through all of Trump’s claims in his letter, but here are some early fact checks. He also delivered some new claims that were false, misleading or lacking in context. Trump repeated multiple false claims that have been debunked on numerous occasions. Like much of his previous rhetoric about Ukraine and impeachment, much of the letter was false or misleading. On Tuesday afternoon, Trump released a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which – employing his distinctive vocabulary and punctuation – he blasted Democrats’ push to impeach him, defended his dealings with Ukraine and touted his accomplishments in office. It read like a string of President Donald Trump’s tweets.
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