Political Quotes

“I am going to yield in a moment after I go through the different claims the gentleman made. It is real interesting that the majority leader read selectively from that conversation between President Trump and Zelensky on: Will you do me a favor? So let me read you the full sentence, because you are trying to take one context and shift it somewhere else, which has been done over and over by Chairman Schiff and others. So let's start. This is President Trump: I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine. They say CrowdStrike. That is the sentence where he said: I would like you to do us a favor. Not ``me,'' ``us.'' Please read the transcript. That is what he said. And when he said, ``I would like you to do `us' a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,'' the corruption was going on in Ukraine. The interference from Russia, much of it was emanating from Ukraine in 2016. We know that. Don't deny it. Don't try to hide that. ``I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine. They say CrowdStrike.'' He is not talking about Biden. He is not talking about some future election. He is talking about the company that was looking into the corruption and the interference by Russia in the 2016 election. We still haven't gotten to the bottom of that. This is part of it. This absolutely went through Ukraine.…”