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Perry: Trump Is Absolved Because He Never Mentioned Biden To Me


Soon-to-depart Energy Secretary Rick Perry has a new defense for President Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo.
In an interview with conservative radio personality Hugh Hewitt Wednesday — a day after career diplomat Bill Taylor’s blockbuster congressional testimony undercut Trump’s repeated quid pro quo denials — Perry denied being asked by the President to “do anything illegal or unethical” in the almost three years he worked for him.
Perry further elaborated by claiming that he had “never heard the President say the words ‘Biden.’”
“I never heard the word Biden mentioned, not from him, not from staff, not from the EU ambassador, not from …read more

Source:: TPM

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