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Trump called Adam Schiff a "lowlife," bashing him for his rendition of Trump's phone call. "He should resign from office in disgrace, and frankly they should look at him for treason," Trump said, though treason has an actual definition that is not this.
Trump, feeling ranty while sitting with the president of Finland, called Adam Schiff a "shifty" individual. He bashed Schiff for criticizing Mike Pompeo, saying "he couldn't carry his blankstrap," meaning jockstrap.
Trump attacked San Francisco to attack Pelosi, saying "there's needles and drugs all over the street, there's tents, there's people...dying in squalor...it used to be a great city."
Trump was exceptionally ranty in these opening comments in the Oval Office. It wasn't like the usual back-and-forth intermittent rant, just one straight rant. He then said, "I think I've answered most of your questions."
Trump now says that his "corruption" discussion with Ukraine's president was mostly about Democratic corruption in 2016. (Along with the Biden stuff, he did vaguely raise the weird conspiracy theory about Ukraine and "the server.")
Trump: A whistleblower should be protected "if the whistleblower's legitimate."
Trump said Lindsey Graham told him of the Ukraine call: "You never asked him for anything." Trump made specific requests of Ukraine's president.
Trump said "the person" who gave the whistleblower his information is "a spy."
Trump: "I'd rather run against Biden than almost any of those candidates." He says Biden has "never been a smart guy" and is "less smart now than he was."
Trump said he knew that the new book out about him and immigration and moats and such was going to be fake because it was written by people from the "Washington Post." It was written by New York Times reporters.
Trump attacked the Washington Post at length, saying everything the Washington Post does is fake, because he's angry about a book by journalists from the New York Times.
Trump says he doesn't use fake news anymore and will now say corrupt news because fake isn't strong enough. He tweeted a tweet about fake news less than three hours ago.
