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Trump is not really addressing the question about his call to Zelensky. He is instead boasting again that he beat Hillary Clinton 306 to 223, though she got 232, though he has said 223 more than 25 times. He then talks about how Clinton didn't go to Wisconsin. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims that any time there's a poll, you can add 10 points, or 7 points, or 6 points to his support number. (This is still in response to the question about the appropriateness of his actions with Zelensky.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is wrong that the Democratic senators' letter threatened to cut money to Ukraine. Here's the letter. https://t.co/vYwJsMWEF2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked to explain why it IS appropriate to ask a foreign leader for info about a political rival, and what he'd say if Obama did it, Trump says, "That's what he did." Obama did not do that. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Made a lot of new friends," Trump says of his time at the UN, then opens things up to questions, which he requests to be about UNGA rather than the "witch hunt." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is now talking about his decision to cut aid to Central American countries, saying all the US got back for all the money was caravans. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is rally-level Trump rambling, except he is talking quietly to reporters. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, subdued but rambling, repeats his usual imaginary story about how San Diego and California wanted a wall but then San Diego complained after it was built. San Diego and California governments oppose the wall; even San Diego's Republican mayor opposes it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says reporters can have his other conversation with Zelensky any time they want, since it was "all perfect." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sir Alert: Trump says foreign leaders came up to him and said, "Sir, what you go through no president has" gone through. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump alleges with no evidence at all that it was "all planned" that this controversy would be happening while he was having success at the UN. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democratic senators were criticizing Ukraine for closing prosecutions related to Paul Manafort so as to, a NYT article suggested, not offend Trump. https://t.co/0pSUbK0Q2U https://t.co/SGBGKZlls3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says the US is now energy independent. It is not. (Definitions vary, but the EIA says it expects exports to exceed imports at some point next year. Even at that point, the US will obviously still be using foreign energy.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's what Trump was talking about when he criticized the letter from the Democratic senators. https://t.co/gF5j4tJqhp — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump boasts of China losing jobs and wealth. He boasts of the US economy, promises "much bigger trade deals." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is blasting a group of Democrats for a letter criticizing Ukraine's prosecutors for closing investigations. He accuses these Democrats of threatening Zelensky. — PolitiTweet.org

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"No push, no pressure, no nothing," Trump says of his call with Zelensky, calling this story a "hoax." He complains that the media is not covering his diplomatic accomplishments. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump again criticizes Hunter Biden for his business dealings in Ukraine and with China, saying "I demand transparency." (He tweeted the same a little while ago.) He then notes that Zelensky "wants to end corruption in Ukraine." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump seemed to be struggling for the word "secondhand," which he eventually used. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says the "so-called whistleblower" "didn't have any first-class or first-rate or second-tier information, from what I understand...you'll have to figure that out for yourself." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump calls his meetings at the UN "pretty staggering." He claims to have possibly set a "new record." (For...quantity of meetings, it seems.) (No idea who is the reigning meetings recordholder.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Quotes and fact checks on Trump’s press conference will be in this thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was interesting — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Pelosi has “lost her way” and has been “taken over by the radical left.” He says he tried to talk to her about guns and she didn’t even know what he was talking about. — PolitiTweet.org

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Earlier, Trump told Zelensky, “If you remember, you lost Crimea during a different administration. Not during the Trump administration.” He went on to name Obama. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Biden talking openly about trying to get the prosecutor fired might show that he’s “dumb.” (Trump is right that there’s a tape of Biden’s comments - but they don’t say what Trump says they say.) — PolitiTweet.org

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“We have corruption also...we have a lot of corruption in our government,” Trump tells Zelensky, speaking of the Russia investigators. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, asked a question on this, says yes, he thinks Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails could be in Ukraine. (???) — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about Giuliani’s dealings with Ukraine, he tells reporters to “ask Rudy.” He then says Giuliani has “every right” to try to find out the origins of the Russia “witch hunt.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, sitting with Zelensky, criticizes Hunter Biden’s business record, then, moments later, notes Zelensky ran on an anti-corruption platform. — PolitiTweet.org