Trump tells Fox News he looked into suing Adam Schiff for parody Ukraine call
It appears the president looked into suing Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), but he couldn’t do it.
President Donald Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Wednesday instead of driving the few miles to chat in the studio.
Trump ranted about Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaking to a “pretty rough crowd” at a pro-choice rally. He then turned to lead into his Schiff attack, revealing that he looked into a lawsuit.
“He wasn’t shielded by the halls of Congress,” Trump said about Schumer. “The way Schiff was, when he lied about my phone call, when he made up a phone call and gave it in Congress. And you immediately say, ‘Good. We’ll take him to court.’ But he’s got immunity because he’s talking in Congress and so he totally made up a — it was a fake phone call. He just totally made it up. And it was disgraceful.”
In fact, parody and satire is legal, which is how shows like “Saturday Night Live” get away with mocking the president without being sued for libel. In Schiff’s “fake call,” he told the audience ahead of time what it was and why he wrote it. People who weren’t informed or paying attention, however, seemed to be confused about it.
See Trump’s exchange with Hannity below:
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Andrew Gillum says Sanders can’t win Florida after Cuba praise: ‘Like listening to Trump after Charlottesville’
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum said on Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders is facing a bloodbath in his state's Democratic presidential primary.
Gillum told radio host David Axelrod that Sanders' recent praise of the Castro regime in Cuba had hurt his presidential campaign in Florida.
"My guess is it will likely be a Biden runaway," Gillum explained. "Those comments will live for a lot of people."
Gillum recounted what Colombian-American had told him.
"She said, listening to Sanders romanticize or give credit to the Castro regime literacy reading program is like listening to Donald Trump after Charlottesville saying there are good people on both sides," he recalled. "That's how deep this hit in those communities."
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‘You are a sociopath!’ Trump gets hammered for boasting about coronavirus without testing to back his numbers
President Donald Trump again bragged about his coronavirus response by posting misleading statistics.
The president questioned the World Health Organization's estimated 3.4 percent death rate from COVID-19 during an interview Wednesday night on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, and he offered additional fudged statistics the following morning on his Twitter feed.
"With approximately 100,000 CoronaVirus cases worldwide, and 3,280 deaths, the United States, because of quick action on closing our borders, has, as of now, only 129 cases (40 Americans brought in) and 11 deaths," Trump claimed. "We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!"
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the lone Republican senator to convict President Donald Trump on abuse of power charges, does not sound enthusiastic about his colleagues' decision to launch a probe of former Vice President Joe Biden.
In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Romney said he did not like the optics surrounding Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) investigation into Biden's role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor at a time when his son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
"There's no question but the appearance of looking at Burisma appears political," he said. "And I think people are tired of these kind of political investigations."
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