The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman is reporting that at a United Nations event on Thursday, President Donald Trump angrily demanded to know who gave information to the government whistleblower who made a complaint about his July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Haberman told CNN that when Trump was speaking at a UN breakfast at the Intercontinental Hotel in New York City, he railed against the media as well as former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House of Representatives over reports that he asked Zelensky to dig up dirt on his political rival as well as Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Haberman, describing Trump’s remarks at the UN event, told CNN, “The president, from the outset, was hot about the whistleblower, hot about the Bidens, hot about the media, referred to the media as scum, said other things about the Biden family and then said there was nothing wrong with his phone call — before he was several minutes into his remarks — and said the whistleblower didn’t hear the call, and he wanted to know who the whistleblower had heard things from. He said that was, quote, ‘close to a spy.’”
View the complete September 26 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.