WASHINGTON, Sept 30, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – President Donald Trump said Sunday he
wants to meet the anonymous whistleblower at the center of the scandal
threatening his presidency.
Trump has been relatively quiet this weekend but in a series of evening
tweets he also blasted Democratic lawmakers and the media as he railed
against the impeachment inquiry launched last week.
That probe was triggered by the release of a rough transcript of a July
phone call in which Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe
Biden, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2020 US election.
He also enlisted his attorney general and personal lawyer to help in that
effort.
The whistleblower filed a complaint over the contents of the conversation
back in August, saying Trump had tried to get a foreign power to interfere in
a US election for his own gain.
“Like every American, I deserve 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,” Trump
tweeted.
He also said the de facto leader of the congressional inquiry, Adam
Schiff, lied to Congress last week about what Trump said to the president of
Ukraine and should be punished.
“His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever
seen in the great Chamber,” Trump tweeted.
“He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth
of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the
highest level for Fraud & Treason,” he wrote.