“That call [with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] was a great call. It was a perfect call, a perfect call. What wasn’t perfect is the horrible thing that Joe Biden said. And now he made a lie when he said he never spoke to his son. I mean, give me a break. He’s already said he spoke to his son. And now he said yesterday very firmly. Who wouldn’t speak to your son? Of course you spoke to your son. So, he made the mistake of saying he never spoke to his son. He spoke to his son. But, more importantly, what he said about the billions of dollars that he wouldn’t give them unless they fired the prosecutor, and then he bragged about how they fired the prosecutor, and then they got the money.”
— President Trump, speaking to reporters, Sept. 22, 2019
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
— Former vice president Joe Biden, speaking to reporters, Sept. 21
“Somebody ought to look into Joe Biden’s statement, because it was disgraceful, where he talked about billions of dollars that he’s not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. So, somebody ought to look into that.”
— Trump, remarks to reporters, Sept. 20 Continue reading “Fact-checking Trump’s latest claims on Biden and Ukraine”
“I don’t think that was a joke based on what I saw.”