唐纳德·特朗普总统在星期三下午对众议院议长南希·佩洛西发起的正式弹each调查说：“我以为我们赢了，我以为已经结束了。” 总统在提到询问时使用熟悉的语言，称这是民主党制造的“骗局”，“狩猎女巫”和“谎言”，因为他说，他们无法在民意测验中击败他。
继前一天佩洛西宣布后，特朗普在纽约市洲际酒店的首次官方新闻发布会上向记者讲话。
弹劾调查直接是在有消息显示总统与乌克兰总统沃洛德米尔·泽伦斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）于7月打来电话后，他在电话中要求外国领导人对乔·拜登及其家人进行调查。特朗普要求Zelensky调查为什么这位前副总统兼2020年总统候选人敦促将一名被奥巴马政府指控为腐败的前乌克兰检察官下台。
总统在新闻发布会上谈到调查时说：“没有压力，没有压力，没有。这都是骗局。” 总统说，国会和记者应要求他与泽伦斯基进行较早对话的笔录，以及副总统迈克·彭斯与乌克兰领导人进行的两次对话。他说：“您可以在需要时随时获得它。”后来澄清说，“如果对您很重要，他将发布成绩单。”
他还多次重复说，他和彭斯与Zelensky进行的所有对话都是“完美的”。
根据白宫当天早些时候发布的电话摘要，总统说：“我希望你能帮我们一个忙，”在提起拜登之前。
他说：“我希望您了解乌克兰的整个局势所发生的事情。关于拜登的儿子的传闻很多，拜登停止了起诉，很多人都想知道这一点。” “因此，您可以与总检察长一起做任何事情都很棒。拜登四处张扬地吹嘘他停止了起诉，所以如果您可以调查它的话……这对我来说太可怕了。” 总统随后多次表示，将请他的私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼（Rudy Giuliani）和司法部长威廉·巴尔（William Barr）对此事进行检查。
关于总统要求的报道首先来自一位匿名举报人的一份报告，该举报者声称他知道这一电话以及涉及总统与外国领导人互动的其他事件。预计该投诉的修订版将在今天下午由白宫发送给国会。
与此同时，总统星期三清晨在联合国会见了泽伦斯基。总统在那里向媒体保证，他们的电话很正常。泽伦斯基说，他没有受到美国调查拜登的压力，但他也不想卷入这一指控。
他说：“对不起，但我不想参与民主公开选举。美国大选。”
'I THOUGHT WE HAD WON, I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER:' PRESIDENT TRUMP ON IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
"I thought we had won, I thought it was over," said President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon regarding an official impeachment inquiry launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday afternoon. The president used familiar language when referring to the inquiry calling it a "hoax," a "witch hunt" and a "lie" created by Democrats because, he said, they can't beat him at the polls.
Trump spoke to reporters from the Intercontinental Hotel in New York City at his first official press conference following Pelosi's announcement the day before.
The impeachment inquiry directly followed revelations that the president had a July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, where he asked the foreign leader have Joe Biden and his family investigated. Trump asked Zelensky to look into why the former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate pushed for a former Ukrainian prosecutor, who had been accused of corruption by the Obama administration, to be ousted.
"No push, no pressure, no nothing. It's all a hoax," the president said of the investigation during the press conference. The president said Congress and reporters should ask for the transcript of an earlier conversation he had with Zelensky as well as two conversations Vice President Mike Pence had with the Ukraine leader. "You can have it anytime you need it," he said but later clarified that he would release the transcripts "if it's important for you."
He also repeated multiple times that all of the conversations he and Pence had with Zelensky were "perfect."
The president, according to the White House summary of the call released earlier in the day, said, "I would like you to do us a favor," before bringing up Biden.