Posted on 10/02/2019 5:10:03 PM PDT by ransomnote
Remarks by President Trump and President Niinistö of the Republic of Finland Before Bilateral Meeting
Oval Office
12:08 P.M. EDT
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. Its a great honor to have a man thats become a friend of mine weve gotten to know each other well the President of Finland. And we have many things to discuss, including trade and military and purchases, and lots of different very exciting events.
So well have a long time together today. Well then be having lunch. And I think were going to be seeing the media right afterwards and say a few words.
But its an honor, Mr. President, to have you with us. Thank you.
PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ: Thank you. Thank you very much. Im waiting for our discussions.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes. Yes. See? Hes made a few words, and he gets it done. (Laughter.) Thats what I like about him.
PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ: (Laughs.) Hope so.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thats what I like about him.
Anyway, okay, thank you all very much.
Q How do you respond to concerns that you are putting the whistleblowers life in danger?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, the whistleblower was very inaccurate. The whistleblower started this whole thing by writing a report on the conversation I had with the President of Ukraine. And the conversation was perfect; it couldnt have been nicer.
I saw Rick Scott, I saw many of the senators talking about it, many of the congressmen talking about. Not a thing wrong. Unless you heard the Adam Schiff version, where he made up my conversation. He actually made it up. It should be criminal. It should be treasonous. He made it up every word of it, made up and read to Congress as though I said it.
And Ill tell you what: He should be forced to resign from Congress Adam Schiff. Hes a lowlife. He should be forced to resign. He took a perfect conversation, realized he couldnt read it to Congress because it was perfect; it was a very nice conversation. I knew many people were on the phone. Not only were many people on the phone, we had stenographers on the phone taking it down, word for word.
He took that conversation, which was perfect; he said, I cant read this. So he made up a conversation and he reported it and said it to Congress and to the American people. And it was horrible was he said. And that was supposed to be coming from me, but it was all fabricated.
He should resign from office in disgrace. And, frankly, they should look at him for treason because he is making up the words of the President of the United States. Not only words, but the meaning. And its a disgrace. It should not be allowed to happen.
Q But your own DNI said the call transcript was consistent with the complaint. So, should only whistleblowers
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, no, no, he didnt say that. You have to take a look.
Q He did say that.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, no, no. He did not say that. And, in fact, if you look at what he said, he found everything to be very normal. Hes a good man, and Joe. And he found it to be very normal. I saw Schiff trying to go 15 you know, we call him Shifty Schiff. We dont call him Shifty Schiff for nothing. Hes a shifty, dishonest guy who, by the way, was critical of one of the great Secretary of States. Graduated number one in his class at West Point. Graduated top of one of the top in his class at Harvard Law School. The most honorable person, Mike Pompeo. And this guy was negative on Mike Pompeo.
He cant you know, theres an expression: He couldnt carry his blank strap. I wont say it because theyll say it was so terrible to say. But that guy couldnt carry his blank strap. You understand that?
So, youre dealing with bad people. And, you know, I watched China over the last few days, and I watched some of these other countries build up, build up, build up. And weve built up more than any of them because of me, but no help due to the Democrats. Theyre a disaster. Theyre the do-nothing Democrats. They dont do any work. All they want to do is try and win the election in 2020, so they come up with this impeachment nonsense.
And everyone knows the conversation all based on a phone call that I had, where Im talking to the President of Ukraine. Youll hear from our ambassadors, youll hear from some of the folks that know all about the call why the call was set up and everything else. Its perfect. The call was perfect.
In fact, Lindsey Graham said, I didnt know you could be so nice. There was no quid pro quo. Remember, before they saw the only reason I put that out and I did it with the approval of Ukraine, by the way; otherwise, I couldnt have done it was because the whistleblower was so dishonest. The whistleblower said terrible things about the call, but he then I then found out he was second-hand and third-hand. In other words, he didnt know what was on the call.
No, these are bad people. These are dishonest people. And when the American people find out what happened, its going to be a great day. And you know what? We have to go back to building our country, because 99 percent of Nancy Pelosis time is spent on this. She should worry about lowering the price of drugs, which Ive done. But its hard to do it without the help of Congress about creating border security, which Ive done.
Weve built we now have hundreds of miles of wall under construction on the southern border. She should worry about infrastructure. She should worry about the USMCA. Shes not doing it. I just saw a part of her press conference before the President came. And Im sorry to bother you with this, Mr. President, because we have other things to talk about.
PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ: (Inaudible.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But I will tell you, I just watched part she says, Oh, drug prices Well, shes been trying to get drug prices down for how long has she been in Congress? For years. She should focus on her own district. Do you see whats happening to her district? We call it tent city. Its terrible. In fact, we just sent a violation to the city of San Francisco: unsafe water, unsafe conditions, environmental EPA.
Our EPA, which is doing a great job, is sending Nancy Pelosi, with all the talk about EPA theres needles and drugs all over the street. Theres tents. Theres people that are dying in squalor in the best location, in San Francisco. It used to be a great city. Now, you have to see whats happened to San Francisco. You happen to see what whats what the Democrats have allowed to happen. As an example, what theyve allowed to happen, just take a look, to Los Angeles. Great cities.
One other thing: Yesterday, as you know, I was sued by the Governor, Gavin Newsom hes another beauty. I was sued by him. Hes a do-nothing. Sued by him so that I cant get on the ballot in the state of California. It was a massive story. It was the biggest story, Mr. President. It was headlines all over the place: Trump gets sued by this do-nothing governor in California. It was big.
Heres what happened: Yesterday, I won the case, very convincingly. A very tough, smart, highly respected judge not a Trump person at all not appointed by Trump; appointed by somebody that you would call the opposition came out with a scathing and tough opinion. I won the case. I didnt see one story that I won that case not one story from the fake news. I didnt see Steve write it. I didnt see you write it. I didnt see anybody write it.
So, let me just tell you, just to finish: Nancy Pelosi and Shifty Shifft [sic] who should resign in disgrace, by the way and Jerry Nadler and all of them, its a disgrace whats going on. And we should be focused on making America great again and keeping America great, because thats what we have to do.
And when I look at that parade with military and millions of people and everything else, we better get smart. We better start focusing on the right things. Because what they did with this nonsense think of it: You have a perfect I mean, perfect, conversation with a President of another country Ukraine, in this case and they try and say, Oh, lets impeach him.
Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day I got elected. Ive been going through this for three years. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day I got elected. And you know what? They failed. And this is the easiest one of all, because this one is based on one conversation.
What about Obamas conversation with the President of Russia, where he says, Hey, hey, tell Vlad Ill talk to him after the election is over. Ill talk to him Nobody reports that, right? Thats stuff you should report.
But you people should be ashamed of yourself. We have the most dishonest media that you can imagine. And you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Okay, I think Ive answered most of your questions. What do you think?
Yes?
Q Finnish media here. Finland is the happiest country in the world.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Finland is a happy country.
PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ: Yeah, for sure.
Q What can you learn? What can you learn from Finland, which has a social-democratic (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, you got rid of Pelosi and you got rid of Shifty Schiff.
PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ: We have time to discuss about that.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Finland is a happy country. Hes a happy leader, too. (Laughs.)
Q Some Republicans have raised concerns
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No Republicans have raised concerns.
Q about the whistleblower, that their name that the identity of the whistleblower should be protected.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I dont care. Look, I think a whistleblower should be protected if the whistleblower is legitimate. But when the whistleblower makes a big report on the conversation I had with a President, of Ukraine, and it was a great conversation. It was per- we talked mostly about congratulations on your win. We talked about corruption. And were really referring mostly to 2016, because what the Democrats did in 2016 was corrupt.
And lets see what happens. Theyre more concerned with that than they are with me and impeachment. Theyre trying to hide what maybe is coming. I let our great if you look Ill let our great law enforcement take care of it. Okay?
Attorney General Barr, I guess, is working on it. And I hope hes working on it. Because what happened in 2016 is a disgrace to this country. And theyre more worried about that because they know theyre guilty as hell. All right? Theyre much more worried about that.
Q Is the whistleblower immediately illegitimate if they are reporting misconduct about you?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: When a whistleblower
Q About you, sir?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Okay. Are you ready?
I heard the whistleblowers report from you people, and how bad it was about just a simple conversation.
By the way, this whole thing revolves around a simple conversation. And if you remember at the beginning, it was quid pro quo. Thats all you heard about. And I think he said seven or eight times: quid pro in other words, Youre going to that or were not going to give you money. Youre going to do this or were not going to I never said it.
But when I heard these horrible stories come out, I had no choice but to release a conversation which I hate to do, and I hope I dont have to do it again with the leader of a country. I asked a certain person to call up a certain person in that country to get permission to do it; otherwise, I wouldnt have been able to do it. And if I didnt do it and I appreciate Ukraine for allowing us to release the conversation. But it was so innocent, it didnt hurt them. If anything, it helped them because it was a very innocent conversation.
But when a whistleblower takes that very nice, innocent Lindsey Graham said, I never knew you were that nice a person. He said, You never asked him for anything. You were really, really nice. Lindsey was saying, I never knew you were so nice. That was a perfect conversation.
I heard Rick Scott today say, That was a perfect conversation. How can they impeach him on that conversation? He read it. Hes a very smart guy from Florida Rick Scott and he said, That was a perfect conversation. How can you impeach somebody on that conversation?
But the whistleblower wrote not that conversation. He wrote a vicious conversation. In other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest. And this country has to find out who that person was, because that person is a spy, in my opinion.
Are you ready? So, when a whistleblower, purposely or not, gives something thats totally erroneous now, heres where I fooled them. They never thought Id release the conversation. They never thought in a million years that Id release the conversation.
When Liddle' Adam Schiff saw the text, when he read it, he couldnt believe it. When Nancy Pelosi, who worked a day early Nancy Pelosi called for essentially impeachment Lets impeach the President before she saw the transcript. And this is an exact word-for-word transcript of the conversation, right? Taken by very talented stenographers.
Q Well
PRESDENT TRUMP: Listen to me.
So when she saw that, she was she I heard she went crazy. She said, We cant impeach him on this conversation. Thats a great conversation. She went by the whistleblower. And the whistleblower was so bad, I would even think about it.
But heres what happened: The whistleblower was wrong. The only thing that matters is the transcript of the actual conversation that I had with the President of Ukraine. It was perfect. Were looking at congratulations. Were looking at doing things together. And what are we looking at? Were looking at corruption.
And, in, I believe, 1999, there was a corruption act or a corruption bill passed between both and signed between both countries, where I have a duty to report corruption. And let me tell you something: Bidens son is corrupt, and Biden is corrupt. And Id rather run against Biden than almost any of those candidates. And I think theyre all weak. But I think Biden has never been a smart guy, and hes less smart now than he ever was.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
Q Sir, have you actually wanted a moat on the border, sir? Sir, did you suggest a moat?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh. Let me do that again; its a fair question. So this morning and last night, my comms people came to me. Listen to this one, President. Im glad theyre interested in Finland, but what can you do? Im interested in Finland much more.
But my comms people came to me, and they said, Sir, theres a book or something being written. Its written by Washington Post people, so you know its inaccurate. You know its probably a fraud.
So two reporters from the Washington and they said, President Trump started screaming, ranting, and raving, that on the southern border where we are right now building a tremendous wall; its unbelievable whats going up. Army Corps of Engineers. Its were doing a lot. We have well soon have over 100 miles under construction and completed. Were going to end up with over 400 to 500 miles.
Okay, ready? That I wanted a wall, but I wanted a moat. A moat whatever that is. Its not a word I used, but they used it. A moat. And in the moat, I wanted alligators and snakes. And I wanted the wall to be a fence, and I wanted it to be electrified. And I wanted sharp spikes at the top, so if anyone gets it, it goes piercing through their skin is somewhat the way they said it. Skin-piercing spikes. But I want the whole wall to be electrocuted.
And, Sir, you never said that. They came to me the comms people. They came to me yesterday. And they said, Did you say this? I said, Why are you asking that stupid question? Because the fake news media is saying that you said this in a book. I said, What book? And they said, Washington Post. I said, Well, obviously its fake because almost everything the Washington Post does is fake.
Its a fake newspaper. Its owned by a rich guy for the purposes of giving him power in Washington. Its really I mean, its a lobbyist I call it the Lobbyist Washington Post for Amazon. And he ought to be ashamed of himself, because what they do to his reputation I think maybe its probably no good anyway. But what they do to his reputation with the Washington Post is a disgrace.
So these two reporters wrote this book, and they said I want a moat with alligators, snakes, electrified fences so people get electrocuted if they so much as touch the fence, and spikes on top. Never said it. Never thought of it. And I actually put out something on social media today. I said, Im tough on the border, but Im not that tough.
Okay. It was a lie. Just so you have it you asked the question. It was a total lie. It was corrupt reporting. Okay?
Q Did you suggest
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I dont even fake anymore; I call the fake news now, corrupt news. Because fake isnt tough enough, and Im the one that came up with the term Im very proud of it but I think Im going to switch it largely to corrupt news. Because the media in this country not everybody; we have some great reporters, some great journalists. But much of it is corrupt. Its corrupt. You have corrupt media in this country. And it truly is the enemy of the people.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good day, everybody. Go write some phony stories. Go write some phony stories. Go write a Schiff-like story.
Just another day in paradise.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you, Steve. I hope I answered all your questions.
Q I didnt get I didnt get one in.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Come here. Come here. Come here. What? Q I was going to ask you (inaudible) limit the number of people who are listening on those phone calls
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I might. I might. Yeah. I and, by the way, I assume many people. I always do. When I speak to a leader if I speak to Finland, I always assume that many people are listening.
Q Yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And the other thing is that Nancy Pelosis account of my phone call is a total lie. I called her about guns, and then I heard her shes talking about impeachment. I said, What are you talking about impeachment? I called her to say Im making big progress on guns, okay?
Fellas, I dont know if youre with us, here.
Q (Inaudible) not here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But Im saying that and I think you have to put that out. That would be the only thing. All right. Good.
Q Thank you, sir.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Good. Thank you, Steve. It was a lie. Her statement was a lie. But, you know, what else is new?
Thank you, everybody.
END
12:26 P.M. EDT
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: I dont even fake anymore; I call the fake news now, corrupt news. Because fake isnt tough enough, and Im the one that came up with the term Im very proud of it but I think Im going to switch it largely to corrupt news. Because the media in this country not everybody; we have some great reporters, some great journalists. But much of it is corrupt. Its corrupt. You have corrupt media in this country. And it truly is the enemy of the people.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good day, everybody. Go write some phony stories. Go write some phony stories. Go write a Schiff-like story.
Just another day in paradise.
I asked PRESIDENT NIINISTÖ to look into the biden mess or else.
Thanks ransomnote!
Q How do you respond to concerns that you are putting the whistleblowers life in danger?
That lying jackass should have been removed right then and there.
Q But your own DNI said the call transcript was consistent with the complaint.
That jackass was just a liar and should have been punched in the breadbasket in front of the rest of the press corps.
I have two warm spots in my heart from Finland...a Sako 270 Finnbear and a 222 Rem mag Vixen. Swiss watches. And great people too!
Arkansas. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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