Posted on 09/25/2019 4:06:40 PM PDT by ransomnote
InterContinental New York Barclay New York, New York
2:19 P.M. EDT
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much, everybody. Were with the President of Ukraine, and hes made me more famous, and Ive made him more famous. (Laughter.) I will say hes got a great reputation. Hes very, very strongly looking into all sorts of corruption and some of the problems theyve had over the years. I think its one of the primary reasons he got elected. His reputation is absolutely sterling. And its an honor to be with you.
And we spoke a couple of times, as you probably remember. And theyd like to hear every single word, and we give them every single word, and then theyll say, Well, about today? I think the press would like to stay in the meeting, but we have lots of witnesses, if youd like to have it.
But the country of our country is doing phenomenally well. We are we have the best economy weve ever had. We have the best employment numbers that weve ever had. We have now almost 160 million people working, which is more than weve ever had. So were doing very well in every respect. And I have a feeling that your country is going to do fantastically well. And whatever we can do. You just take care of yourself. Thank you.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Thank you very much. Its a great pleasure to me to be here, and its better to be on TV than by phone, I think.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: And, Mr. President, thank you very much. And Im not the first time to stay in New York
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: but I know that youve never been in Ukraine.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thats right.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: And your predecessor also how do you say it in English? didnt find time; I mean that. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: So, can you give me a word that you will come to our great country?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, Im going to try. (Laughter.) And I know a lot of people I will say this: I know a lot of people from Ukraine. Theyre great people. And I owned something called the Miss Universe pageants years ago, and I sold it to IMG. And when I ran for President, I thought maybe it wouldnt be the greatest thing to own the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. But its a great thing. And we had a winner from Ukraine, and weve really had we got to know the country very well in a lot of different ways. But its a country, I think, with tremendous potential.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Yes, I know it, because Im from this country.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: And I want to thank you for the invitation to Washington.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: You invited me. But I think Im sorry, but I think you forgot to tell me the date. (Laughter.) But I think in the near future.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Theyll tell you the date.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: (Laughs.) Yes, they know before us. And I want to thank you to thank you, especially, Mr. President, to USA, to your government. Like I said, I know many people, many faces, like the Second Family, after you my Ukrainian family, we know each other.
Thank you for your support, especially now when you know, when we have two really, two wars in Ukraine. The first one is with corruption, you know. But well fight no, well be winner in this fight, Im sure. And the priority my priority is to stop the war on Donbass and to get back our territories: Crimea, Donbass, Luhansk.
Thank you for your support in this case. Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much, Mr. President. If you remember, you lost Crimea during a different administration, not during the Trump administration.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Yeah. So you have chance to help us.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thats right. I do. But that was during the Obama administration that you lost Crimea, and I didnt think it was something that you should have. But that was done a long time ago, and I think it was handled poorly. But its just one of those things.
One of the elements that we discussed is the United States helps Ukraine, but I think that other countries should help Ukraine much more than theyre doing Germany, France, the European Union nations. They really should help you a lot more. And I think maybe, together, well work on that. They have to feel a little bit guilty about it because they dont do what they should be doing.
Youre very important to the European Union. Youre very important strategically, very important. And I think they should spend a lot more in helping Ukraine. And they know that also, and they actually tell me that, but they dont seem to produce. So Im sure youll talk to them, and Ill certainly be talking to them.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Thank you very much, Mr. President. And, you know, now we need I want to tell you that we now (inaudible) the new country. And, Im sorry, but we dont need help; we need support. Real support. And we thank thank everybody, thank all of the European countries; they each help us. But we also want to have more more. But I understand, so only together, America and EU only together we can stop the war. And, you know, we are ready. We just want to tell that we are remember that we are the biggest country in Europe, but we want to be the richest one. Its true; its in my heart.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, you know, you have great people in Ukraine, and you have very talented people
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Very smart.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: in terms of manufacturing, in terms of some of the things they do. And well be doing were doing trading already, but we should be doing a lot more trading with Ukraine. But you have very talented people. They make great things. Youre at the top of the line, really. So thats very important.
And the other thing is Ive heard you actually have over the last fairly short period of time, youve really made some progress with Russia. I hear a lot of progress has been made. And just keep it going. Itd be nice to end that whole disaster.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: First of all, I want to tell you, before before the relations with Russia I will prolong, just one minute I mean, you have to know I want world to know that now we have the new team, the new parliament, the new government.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: So now we (inaudible) about 74 laws, new laws, which help for our new reforms: land reform, big privatization. They did the law about concessions. Did we (inaudible) general for security, and we launched the Service Secretary.
Is it right Service Secretary?
AIDE: Yes. Anti-corruption court, as well.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: An anti-corruption court. As we came, we did we launched the anti-corruption court. It began to work on the 5th of September. It was you know, it was after five days, we had the new government.
So, we are ready. We want to show that we we just come. And if somebody, if you if you want to help us, so just lets do businesses cases. We have many investment cases. Were ready.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And stop corruption in Ukraine, because that will really make you great. That will make you great personally, and itll also be so tremendous for your nation, in terms of what you want to do and where you want to take it.
Thank you very much. Its a great honor.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Q President Zelensky, have you felt any pressure from President Trump to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden?
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: I think you read everything. So I think you read text. Im sorry, but I dont want to be involved to democratic, open elections elections of USA.
No, you heard that we had, I think, good phone call. It was normal. We spoke about many things. And I so I think, and you read it, that nobody pushed pushed me.
Yes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: In other words, no pressure.
Q President Trump, would President Trump, would you like Mr. Zelensky to
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Because you know what? There was no pressure. And you know there was and, by the way, you know there was no pressure. All you have to do it see it, what went on on the call. But you know that. But you can ask a question, and I appreciate the answer.
Go ahead.
Q Mr. President, would you like President Zelensky to do more on Joe Biden and investigate (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. I want him to do whatever he can. This was not his fault; he wasnt there. Hes just been here recently. But whatever he can do in terms of corruption, because the corruption is massive.
Now, when Bidens son walks away with millions of dollars from Ukraine, and he knows nothing, and theyre paying him millions of dollars, thats corruption.
When Bidens son walks out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund and the biggest funds in the world cant get money out of China and hes there for one quick meeting, and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think thats a horrible thing. I think its a horrible thing.
But Im going far beyond that. I know the President, and Ive read a lot about Ukraine. Ive read a lot about a lot of countries. He wants to stop corruption.
He was elected I think, number one on the basis of stopping corruption, which unfortunately has plagued Ukraine. And if he could do that, hes doing, really, the whole world a big favor. I know and I think hes going to be successful.
Q Mr. President, on Rudy Giuliani, why do you think its appropriate for your personal attorney to get involved in government business?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, youd have to ask Rudy. I will tell you
Q You mentioned it to the President here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I will tell you this, that Rudy is looking to also find out where the phony witch hunt started, how it started. You had a Russian witch hunt that turned out to be two and half years of phony nonsense.
And Rudy Giuliani is a great lawyer. He was a great mayor. Hes highly respected. Ive watched the passion that hes had on television over the last few days. I think its incredible the way hes done.
What hes at is he wants to find out where did this Russian witch hunt that you people really helped perpetrate where did it start. How come it started? It was all nonsense. It was a hoax. It was a total hoax. It was a media hoax and a Democrat hoax. Where did it start?
And Rudy has got every right to go and find out where that started. And other people are looking at that, too. Where did it start? The enablers where did it all come from? It was out of thin air. And I think hes got a very strong right to do it. Hes a good lawyer; he knows exactly what hes doing. And its very important.
Q Mr. President, do you believe that the emails from Hillary Clinton do you believe that theyre in Ukraine? Do you think this whole thing originated
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think they could be. You mean the 30,000 that she deleted?
Q Yes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah, I think they could very well boy, that was a nice question. I like that question. (Laughter.) Because, frankly, I think that one of the great crimes committed is Hillary Clinton deleting 33,000 emails after Congress sends her a subpoena. Think of that. You cant even do that in a civil case; you cant get rid of evidence like that. She deleted 33,000 emails after not before after receiving the subpoena from the U.S. Congress.
I mean, I have never heard now, shes done far worse than that. Although, I dont know how much worse it can be. But there were many other things she did that were wrong. But thats so obvious. She gets a subpoena from the United States Congress and she deletes them. And then she said, as I remember it, that, Oh, well, they had to do with the wedding and yoga. She does a lot of yoga, right? So they had 33,000 emails about the wedding of her daughter and yoga. I dont think so.
How she got away with that one is just but its one of many. And its corrupt government. Because we have corruption also, Mr. President. We have a lot of corruption in our government. And when you see what happened with Hillary Clinton, when you see what happened with Comey, and McCabe, and all of these people we have a lot of things going on here too. Hopefully, its going to be found out very soon. But I think that a lot of progress has been made. A lot of progress has been made.
Q Will the military aid continue? Can you assure that it will continue in the future?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, were working with Ukraine. And we want other countries to work with Ukraine. When I saw work, Im referring to money. They should put up more money. We put up a lot of money. I gave you anti-tank busters that frankly, President Obama was sending you pillows and sheets. And I gave you anti-tank busters. And a lot of people didnt want to do that, but I did it.
And I really hope that Russia because I really believe that President Putin would like to do something. I really hope that you and President Putin get together and can solve your problem. That would be a tremendous achievement. And I know youre trying to do that.
Q President Zelensky, in the phone call, you said that you would look into Joe Biden you would ask your prosecutor to look into the matter. Have you had that conversation
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I think no, I havent. But I think that I think this
Q Im asking President Zelensky.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think that somebody, if you look at what he did, its so bad where his son he goes to China, he walks away with a billion and a half dollars. He goes to Ukraine and he walks away with $50,000 a month and a lot of money in addition to that. And the whole thing with the prosecutor in Ukraine.
And hes on tape. This isnt like maybe he did it, maybe he didnt. Hes on tape doing this. I saw this a while ago. I looked at it and I said, Thats incredible. Ive never seen anything like that. Now, either hes dumb, or he thought he was in a room full of really good friends, or maybe its a combination of both, in his case.
Q President Zelensky
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: I heard your question. Thank you very much. Dont cry.
I mean that we have independent country and independent general security. I cant push anyone, you know? Thats it. That is the question that is the answer. So I didnt call somebody or the new general security. I didnt ask him. I didnt push him. Thats it.
Q Do you feel obligated to fulfill your promises to President Trump?
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Just sorry.
Q (Speaks Ukrainian.)
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: (Speaks Ukrainian.)
(As interpreted.) Obligated to do what? (Speaks Ukrainian.)
Q (Speaks Ukrainian.)
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: (Speaks Ukrainian.)
Q (Speaks Ukrainian.)
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: (Speaks Ukrainian.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You want to just
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY: Im sorry.
(As interpreted.) Concerning the investigation, actually, I want to underscore that Ukraine is an independent country. We have a new prosecutor general in Ukraine a highly professional man with a Western education and history to investigate any case he considers and deems appropriate.
While we have many more issues to care about and to tackle, we have (inaudible), we have Maidan, we have corruption cases, as President Trump rightly mentioned about that. So we know what to do, and we know where to go and what to tackle.
Q President Trump, is it appropriate to ask the Attorney General to be involved in this matter?
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q Did you ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to find a way out of impeachment yesterday?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Not at all. No. Look, shes lost her way. Shes been taken over by the radical left. She may be a radical left herself, but she really has lost her way. I spoke to her about guns yesterday. She didnt even know what I was talking about. Shes not interested in guns.
Q Did it even come up or no?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Ill tell you what: Nancy Pelosi is not interested in guns and gun protection and gun safety. All she is thinking about is this. Shes been taken over by the radical left, the whole Democrat Party. And you take a look at whats happening in the media today. The whole party is taken over by the left.
And thank you very much. My poll numbers have gone up. But I dont want it to go up for this reason. When they look, and when you see whats happening, people are really angry at Democrats. Theyre really angry at the Democrat Party.
And things like, as an example, drug pricing getting drugs down things like gun safety, infrastructure, the Democrats cant talk about that because theyve been taken over by a radical group of people. And Nancy Pelosi, as far as Im concerned, unfortunately shes no longer the Speaker of the House.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.
END
2:36 P.M. EDT
Favorite part: Trump describes Nancy Pelosi's failures and says,
"PRESIDENT TRUMP: Ill tell you what: Nancy Pelosi is not interested in guns and gun protection and gun safety. All she is thinking about is this. Shes been taken over by the radical left, the whole Democrat Party. And you take a look at whats happening in the media today. The whole party is taken over by the left.
And thank you very much. My poll numbers have gone up. But I dont want it to go up for this reason. When they look, and when you see whats happening, people are really angry at Democrats. Theyre really angry at the Democrat Party.
And things like, as an example, drug pricing getting drugs down things like gun safety, infrastructure, the Democrats cant talk about that because theyve been taken over by a radical group of people. And Nancy Pelosi, as far as Im concerned, unfortunately shes no longer the Speaker of the House."
And Nancy Pelosi, as far as Im concerned, unfortunately shes no longer the Speaker of the House.”
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NBC and CBS are actually telling their viewers on the evening news that Trump said like a mob boss, you have a nice country, itd be too bad if something happened to it and that it was only released *tonight* so the demwits are just now being able to read it.
Strange, I read it online at about 9:30 before we took the dog to the vet. FOX was saying about the same time that it had been released for 45 minutes but Nancy hadn’t read it. This afternoon, I can’t remember who but someone else was whining he hadn’t read it. Geez, do these clowns not know how to turn on the tv, their computer, their phones or ask their aides to get a copy? Or perhaps they think We, the People are that dumb.
The commie media is dead, the DNC and the media are one
I’m not reading the transcript. I didn’t read the Mueller Report. I don’t bother delving into this stuff. Let them obsess on their narrative, if they want. As far as I’m concerned it’s BS, BS, more BS and still more BS.
I read it. If nothing else, it gives me a whole new appreciation for what the President is REALLY accomplishing here and in the world: he’s got the new president of The Ukraine saying “Hey, I won the election cuz I did what you did” and trying to drain his own swamp!
Kinda made me appreciate President Trump’s foreign policy a little more.
ROFL!
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I'm so glad you called out that section! I had missed the best part of the document.
I know that "clear and present danger" originated in legal text, but using said text as they do sometimes seems like the DS is referencing the movie Clear and Present Danger which features an assasination attempt on the life of the president. I don't think that the DS exactly "objects" to this association.
Looking at the time stamp, I'd say she made her remarks BEFORE POTUS ridiculed her to the world in today's bilateral agreement meetings.
TRUMP SAID:....
“ And whatever we can do. You just take care of yourself. Thank you.”
if that isn't a blatant “Mafia Threat”...you've never watched the Godfather or any good Mafia movies or TV!....Trump is soooooooooo subtle it raises the hair on the backs of every educated liberal pundit in the universe... IMPEACH 45!!
Funny thing Zelensky’s rating plummets after call release and this meeting. They call him Monica Zelinsky now.
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