(CNN) As part of his ongoing attack on a whistleblower complaint filed regarding a July call with the Ukrainian President, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the transcript of that call shows how wrong the whistleblower actually was about what had transpired.

"The only reason that I put (the rough transcript of the call) out, and I did it with the approval with the Ukraine, by the way, otherwise I wouldn't have done it, was because the whistleblower was so dishonest," Trump said, adding: "When a whistleblower takes a very nice, innocent (conversation) ... the whistleblower wrote not that conversation. He wrote a vicious conversation. In other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest."

Later Wednesday, Trump doubled down: "I have a lot of respect for whistleblowers, but only when they're real."

The problem with the President's explanation is not only that it's wrong. It's also that the truth is the exact opposite of what he says it is.

Let's go to the documents!

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