Trump: I’ll Also Declassify My First Call with the Ukraine President

EXCERPT:

TRUMP: "Because I was getting such fake news and I just thought it would be better. And now they’re asking for the first phone conversation, and I'll release that, too, if it's important to you. But they're asking, because I had a conversation on a previous election plateau that he had hit, the current President hit a couple of different plateaus and I spoke to him previous to the call that we released which was a very innocent call, very, very innocent, very nice call, and as he said, I wasn’t pushed. I wasn’t pushed, meaning pressured. He wasn’t pressured at all, but I don’t like the concept of releasing calls because when a president or a prime minister or a king or a queen calls the United States, you don’t like to say, gee, we’re going to release your call to the fake news media and they’re going to make you look like a fool. What happens is it’s hard to do business that way. You want to have people feel comfortable. So I hated it, but you folks were saying such lies, such horrible things about a call that was so innocent and so nice.”