Speaking at a Saturday campaign rally in Ohio, Trump claimed he let Democrats make “wilder and wilder” claims about what he said to Zelensky, “and then we released the tape.”
Trump claimed that Pelosi was told, “Let’s just pretend he did and keep going forward.”
He continued, “After they made up the story and then after that they heard the tape, they died.
In fact, as of nearly five years after the July 2019 call, there is no known US recording of the conversation.
He claimed that Schiff never would have made his comments if he had known Trump would release the rough transcript.
A Pelosi spokesperson told CNN in 2019 that Trump’s account of her supposed thoughts was “complete fiction.”.
He told the “tape” version of the story while again bashing Schiff, who is now running for a US Senate seat in California. »