President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowing the identity of a whistleblower who filed a formal complaint about a call the president had earlier this summer with a foreign leader, but attacked the person as "partisan" and called the unfolding controversy "just another political hack job."
President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowing the identity of a whistleblower who filed a formal complaint about a call the president had earlier this summer with a foreign leader, but attacked the person as "partisan" and called the unfolding controversy "just another political hack job."
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"I do not know the identity of the whistleblower," Trump said during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the Oval Office Friday morning. "I've had conversations with many leaders. They're always appropriate. Always appropriate. At the highest level they are always appropriate."