A number of revealing texts between senior U.S. diplomats were released by House committees exploring President Donald Trump's impeachment.
, which is battling Russian-backed separatists in its east, as leverage to get the investigations in a quid pro quo deal.to the inspector general about Trump's conduct towards Ukraine and alleged efforts by the administration to cover up the president's controversial actions.
"The additional excerpts we are providing are still only a subset of the full body of materials, which we hope to make public after a review for personally identifiable information."Zelensky feared the Trump administration was using him for 2020 election politics It is not clear from the messages if this is about the $391 million of aid temporarily withheld earlier in the year or future assistance.
The messages suggest that a White House meeting for Zelensky was in exchange for his commitment to launch the investigations Trump wanted. Yermak wrote:"I think it is possible to make this declaration and mention all these things. Which we discussed yesterday. But it will be logic to do after we receive a confirmation of date. We inform about date of visit and about our expectations and our guarantees for future visit. Let discuss it."
When asked by the press at that meeting if he ever felt pressure from Trump to investigate the Bidens,
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