Trump says he deserves to meet whistleblower
President Trump unleashed a Twitter tirade on Sunday evening, accusing House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of lying in "perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber" and demanding a meeting with the person who filed a whistleblower complaint in response to his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump declared that he deserves to "meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called 'Whistleblower,' represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way." The whistleblower wrote in their complaint that they did not listen in on Trump's July 25 phone call with Zelensky, but the White House released a summary of the call last week, and it corroborates the whistleblower's account of what occurred.
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