<p class="title">President Donald Trump said Sunday he wants to meet the anonymous whistleblower at the center of the scandal threatening his presidency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump has been relatively quiet this weekend but in a series of evening tweets he also blasted Democratic lawmakers and the media as he railed against the impeachment inquiry launched last week.</p>.<p class="bodytext">That probe was triggered by the release of a rough transcript of a July phone call in which Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2020 US election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also enlisted his attorney general and personal lawyer to help in that effort.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The whistleblower filed a complaint over the contents of the conversation back in August, saying Trump had tried to get a foreign power to interfere in a US election for his own gain.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called 'Whistleblower,' represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way," Trump tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also said the de facto leader of the congressional inquiry, Adam Schiff, lied to Congress last week about what Trump said to the president of Ukraine and should be punished.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber," Trump tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," he wrote.</p>
<p class="title">President Donald Trump said Sunday he wants to meet the anonymous whistleblower at the center of the scandal threatening his presidency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump has been relatively quiet this weekend but in a series of evening tweets he also blasted Democratic lawmakers and the media as he railed against the impeachment inquiry launched last week.</p>.<p class="bodytext">That probe was triggered by the release of a rough transcript of a July phone call in which Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a potential Democratic candidate in the 2020 US election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also enlisted his attorney general and personal lawyer to help in that effort.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The whistleblower filed a complaint over the contents of the conversation back in August, saying Trump had tried to get a foreign power to interfere in a US election for his own gain.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called 'Whistleblower,' represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way," Trump tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also said the de facto leader of the congressional inquiry, Adam Schiff, lied to Congress last week about what Trump said to the president of Ukraine and should be punished.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber," Trump tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," he wrote.</p>