- Specifically, he admitted to holding up military aid to pressure Ukraine's government to investigate a baseless conspiracy that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
- Trump referenced a completely discredited conspiracy theory that CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm he falsely claimed was owned by Ukrainians, got its hands on a Democratic National Committee server.
- Trump added, "We're looking for corruption, there's tremendous corruption, and why should we be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to countries where there's this kind of corruption?"
- In the clip shown below, Trump admits that he withheld military aid appropriated by Congress as leverage to compel a foreign government to launch a politically-motivated investigation.
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Watch Trump openly admit on live TV to doing the thing he's accused of in the impeachment inquiry
In a Friday morning interview on "Fox & Friends," President Donald Trump admitted to doing the key act driving the House's current impeachment inquiry of his presidency.
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