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Q Mr. President, according to several recent polls, more Americans want you to be impeached and removed from office than the number of Americans who don’t.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you’re reading the wrong polls. You’re reading the wrong polls.
Q Fox News, Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, Washington Post — all of those polls.
THE PRESIDENT: You’re read- — let me just tell you, I have the real polls. I have the real polls. The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy. I tell them they ought to get themselves a new pollster.
But the real polls — if you look at polls that —
Q (Inaudible) 50 percent of Americans want you impeached.
THE PRESIDENT: You look at the polls that came out this morning. People don’t want anything to do with impeachment. It’s a phony scam. It’s a hoax. And the whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false information.
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Q (Inaudible) on the John Durham investigation?
THE PRESIDENT: The John Durham investigation is moving along. That’s up to Attorney General Barr — highly respected. John Durham is one of the most respected prosecutors in the last 50 years in this country. And I let them do their thing. It’s Bill Barr and John Durham. And what they come up with will, I think, be very meaningful. We’ll see what happens. I do not get involved with it. That’s up to them.
And, by the way, I’d be allowed to get involved with it if I wanted to, but I chose not to. It’s up to Bill Barr. But the John Durham investigation is a very important — I feel — one of the most important investigations in the history of our country. Okay?
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Q Mr. President, you said “no quid pro quo.” The thing is, is that, in the transcript, it says —
THE PRESIDENT: Read the transcript.
Q — “I have a favor to ask you though.”
THE PRESIDENT: Read the transcript.
Q But it says, “I have no — I have a favor to ask you though.”
THE PRESIDENT: Read the transcript.
Rush is gonna love this!
Trump gave remarks twice today; these are great, but where do you find them? I searched the WH site and couldn’t find remarks except a list which was not chronological.
Got a feeling he is fixing to come down on them like a ton of bricks.
But the John Durham investigation is a very important — I feel — one of the most important investigations in the history of our country. Okay?
This is saying a lot.