The transcript of Trump's call with Zelensky shows that he repeatedly pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden's son's business dealings.
of a July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky, when the president congratulated his counterpart in Kiev on his recent election. During that discussion, Trump repeatedly pressed Zelensky to investigate the Ukrainian business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of political rival former Vice President Joe Biden. Zelensky voiced his willingness to open the probe.
"The other thing, there's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great," Trump said on the call."Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it ... It sounds horrible to me.
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House on June 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C."When you have a new president of Ukraine, who's hearing from the United State of America that his aid is being cut off and that he has an outstanding request to do the president's political bidding, it is of course common sense that he ... would connect the two," Murphy told CNN.
Democrats have slammed the president's actions, accusing him of attempting to get a foreign government to dig up dirt on his political rival. The revelations have pushed the needle closer for many Democratic lawmakers to support impeaching the president, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, announced the official launch of an impeachment inquiry on Tuesday evening.
"This week, the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically,"
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