Jonathan Capehart, who serves as a contributor for MSNBC, sat next to a simulated fire and read portions of the transcript during Saturday's show.
published its interview with the president on Thursday, where Trump said that if Americans heard the call read aloud, they would agree there is nothing inappropriate contained within.."At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it's a straight call.
"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," Trump said on the call, according to the transcript."I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike...I guess you have one of your wealthy people...the server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on. The whole situation.
Since then, far-right bloggers and media outlets have floated various versions of the story, including that Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder of Crowdstrike is Ukrainian. However, Alperovitch was born in Russia and is now an American citizen. However, the president has repeated the idea that Ukraine has"the server" on several occasions, and some of his allies have also made similar claims.
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