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Trump says he wants to read Ukraine call transcript in televised 'fireside chat'
Fox News ^ | 10/31/19 1 hr ago | Louis Casiano | Fox News

Posted on 10/31/2019 9:47:48 PM PDT by conservative98

President Trump said Thursday he may read the transcript of his July 25 telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky aloud to Americans in the style of the famous fireside chats delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s and 1940s.

“This is over a phone call that is a good call,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "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.”

Roosevelt delivered a series of informal radio addresses, dubbed fireside chats, meant to garner support for his New Deal policies and update Americans on the course of World War II, among other issues.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahjeez; dementia; firesidechat; trump; ukraine
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1 posted on 10/31/2019 9:47:48 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Good idea, Mr. President.


2 posted on 10/31/2019 9:47:59 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Do it in a way all major networks have to air it.


3 posted on 10/31/2019 9:50:56 PM PDT by fproy2222 (In America today, womb lynching, the killing of innocent babies in the womb, is legal.)
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To: conservative98

Bump for later.


4 posted on 10/31/2019 9:52:18 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: conservative98

i’ve been hoping for weeks that President Trump would do exctly that!


5 posted on 10/31/2019 9:55:16 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Maybe he should do it on Thanksgiving, after the Detroit football game


6 posted on 10/31/2019 9:55:35 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: fproy2222

Then afterwards start ripping this impeachment scam and the fake news like CNN. Then the CNN hosts like Don Lemon start getting uncomfortable and have to go to commercial.


7 posted on 10/31/2019 10:02:29 PM PDT by conservative98
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“Do it in a way all major networks have to air it.”
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How do you do that?
All the networks hate him.
If it helps him, they won’t do it.

One idea perhaps would be if he was at a big meeting with heads of state and made a speech about the meeting, and in the middle of the speech he read the transcript. I don’t think the networks would cut him off then.

I don’t know. It’s a difficult thing to do.


8 posted on 10/31/2019 10:03:47 PM PDT by redshawk
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To: conservative98

Yes! He has a traditional bully pulpit if he chooses to use it. Make an evening address, maybe over Thanksgiving weekend, read the interview, out the Democrats, maybe reprise The Snake.


9 posted on 10/31/2019 10:04:04 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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WHY THE #### DOES HE HAVE TO JUSTIFY DOING NOTHING WRONG???

It (falsely) looks like an attempt to prove he’s not guilty.

There was NEVER ANYTHING to be guilty of!!!!

BAD IDEA.

Feeding a fire.

Let a senator read it, if anything.

This whole thing STINKS and we are depending on Rs in the senate to save him???

Because the deep state doesn’t have enough compromising photos to go around?!?!

They want Trump out, even at the cost of a civil war.

And Trump reading the transcript will make NO DIFFERENCE.

AND dems will say it’s a TRANSCRIPT. It’s full of lies!! It’s wrong!! Whatever they need to say.

#### the dems and the deep state and the media.

HE WILL be impeached and then it will be up to the senate .
And then it will be up to us.


10 posted on 10/31/2019 10:15:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: conservative98
Then afterwards read the story of the viscous snake!🐍
11 posted on 10/31/2019 10:19:35 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: redshawk

The Pesident, using the power of the FCC, can DEMAND the airtime.


12 posted on 10/31/2019 10:19:42 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Read ... THEN comment.)
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To: dp0622

Do it on OANN and Fox. I think it’s a good idea.


13 posted on 10/31/2019 10:20:02 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: rintintin
fireplace
14 posted on 10/31/2019 10:21:21 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Centurion2000

Would the Democrats demand equal time?


15 posted on 10/31/2019 10:22:48 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: timestax
Trump-Backtabbingmeme
16 posted on 10/31/2019 10:26:58 PM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax

Eric Ciaramella, 33, Pajama Boy


17 posted on 10/31/2019 10:28:17 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Centurion2000

FWIW
I came across some info. Here’s a snip

“.....Networks rarely refuse presidential requests, but it does happen and may even be increasingly common. In 2009 for example, Fox declined to show one of Barack Obama’s news conference during primetime, citing that the network would lose too much money in lost advertising revenue. In 2001, the network made the same decision for one of George W. Bush’s speeches, despite the White House’s request. In 2014, ABC, NBC and CBS all declined to air Obama’s November 2014 speech on immigration reform, though none would comment on why.

In January 2019, after some deliberation, the major networks agreed to President Donald Trump’s request for eight minutes to address the nation on immigration policy. In response, Democrats requested equal time to respond to a speech they predicted would be full of “malice and misinformation.” Most of the major networks agreed to carry the rebuttal as well [sources: Smith, Byers].”


18 posted on 10/31/2019 10:53:00 PM PDT by redshawk
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To: conservative98
At CNN


19 posted on 10/31/2019 10:57:07 PM PDT by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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To: conservative98

Will Trump be the first impeached president who wins re-election?


20 posted on 10/31/2019 11:09:11 PM PDT by Hypo2
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