But what he was hearing from right-wing media was crucial. To the contrary, it led him to the brink of impeachment...Ari Melber's pointMSNBC's Ari Melber made a similar point about the power of right-wing media last week. "Despite what Trump claims, the whistleblower got the call 'almost completely' right," the editors noted. Because there was so much to fact-check, PolitiFact also released a list of "10 things Donald Trump got wrong about impeachment in 2019." Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly wrote , "The president apparently believes he can weather an impeachment trial through sheer repetition of easily disproven falsehoods."

Source: CNN December 17, 2019 04:07 UTC