Donald Trump actually said...

"I don't know him. I don't know Parnas other than I guess I had pictures taken which I do with thousands of people including people today I didn't meet, just met him."

"It's a hoax. It's a hoax. Everybody knows that. It's a complete hoax, the whole thing with Ukraine."

"I represent him as a citizen not as president of the United States."

"Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate!"