President Trump responded Monday to the release this weekend of recently declassified documents showing that Ukraine impeachment source Eric Ciaramella and apparently others submitted false information. 

He also said Ciaramella and apparently others had no direct knowledge of the phone call on which the House impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump were based.

He also said Ciaramella and others apparently "had no direct knowledge of the phone call on which the House proceedings against President Donald Trump were based 

"They’re a bunch of crooked people," Trump told Just the News' Amanda Head. "You’re talking about all the things that they put against me – it’s come out that, in so many different ways, the election was rigged. The 2020 election was rigged. We found that out. They cheated in the election. They cheated on the vote. They cheated in every way possible."

The president's comments came hours after reporting that newly declassified secret memos exposed the 2019 Ukraine whistle-blower Eric Ciaramella's admitted reliance on hearsay, potential political bias as a registered Democrat who worked closely with former President Joe Biden on Ukraine, and false claims about no prior contact with Adam Schiff’s staff.

By concealing the exculpatory evidence, Trump said, "It’s the only way we got an incompetent man to be a president. And he was an incompetent man. Many of the things that we’re talking about. Even including this, this would have been settled a long time ago, not now. And it should’ve been settled by other presidents. But the election was a rigged election. We can’t let that happen to our country.

"It’s a very serious charge against them and the Democrats. They cheat. They can’t get elected with their policy. Their policy is no good. They want to have open borders. They want to have men playing in women’s sports."

Amanda Head is the White House correspondent for Just The News. You can follow her here.