I found no mention by the big fact-crunchers on what was obvious at the time -- Trump was joking.
But the fact-checkers don't seem to care.
The 'rats have no sense of humor or irony. It's an intellectual defect common to every single one of them.
I’ll make it easy for the fact checkers. Dems always lie. And with their attacks on Trump they have become whoppers. Trump + Time = Truth. A favorite Trump tactic is to drop a bomb on the dems without showing the evidence. The dems throw a major hissy fit and later Trump releases the evidence to show the dems as stupid and liers. Slowly crushing the dems/MSM’s credibility. The best part is that the dems can’t help themselves. They go for the cheese every time.
If you need Google to help you make up your mind in all this...you’ve got more issues than just political confusion.
It looks like the “fact-checkers” could stand being a little fact-checked themselves.
Unsavory bastids!
The result of Weapons of Mass Distortion by American Presstitutes.
>>Cipollone said Schiff “manufactured a false version” of the July 25 phone call during which Trump suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dig up dirt on Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s well-paid work for a Ukrainian energy company. Wrong, say the arbiters of actuality, because Schiff described his version of the call as “the essence” of Trump’s remarks and later said it was “at least part in parody.”
BULLSHIT
Schiffstain HAD to claim that AFTER the fact because his LIES had been exposed with the release of the transcript.