Fact check: Whistleblower's lawyers push back on Republican congressman's claims
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Fact check: Whistleblower's lawyers push back on Republican congressman's claims
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-hearing-11-19-19/
From CNN's Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand
As part of a broader narrative questioning the whistleblower’s credibility, Rep. Jim Jordan laid out a series of events regarding the call President Trump had with Ukrainian president on July 25 saying: "The call leaks. The Whistleblower goes to Chairman Schiff’s staff, then he runs off to the lawyer — the same lawyer who said in January of 2017 ‘the coup has started against President Trump.’”
Facts First: The whistleblower’s lawyers pushed back on Jordan’s rendition of events, noting that it’s not true the whistleblower “ran off” to the lawyer who tweeted in reference to a coup.
According to Mark Zaid, the lawyer whose 2017 tweet Jordan referenced, he wasn’t part of the case until “five weeks after the whistleblower complaint was filed.” Zaid said he was added to the whistleblower’s legal team by Andrew Bakaj, the lawyer whom the whistleblower initially hired.
In a statement about the tweets from 2017, which Fox News and the President have pointed to as evidence of Zaid’s bias and partisan leanings, Zaid said "the coup comment referred to those working inside the Administration who were already, just a week into office, standing up to him to enforce recognized rules of law."
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