In pushing probe of rival, did President Donald Trump enlist the U.S. government? by bradheath
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political foe.
The president also offered to involve the U.S. attorney general, according to a summary of the call the White House released last week. After Zelenskiy mentioned to Trump that the country was ready to buy new anti-tank missiles, Trump replied that he “would like you to do us a favor” by looking into whether the probe of Russian election interference that shadowed much of his first term was a Ukrainian plot.
That complaint, filed by an unidentified Central Intelligence Agency officer and based largely on the accounts of other government officials, ignited a rapid effort by Democrats who control the House of Representatives to open an impeachment investigation of Trump, opening a new legal threat to his presidency.See more stories
He also alleged that Ukrainian officials had tried to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election by leaking damaging information about Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who later became a central figure in the U.S. government’s own probe of Russian election interference. He, the White House and the unnamed CIA whistleblower have since made clear that he had significant help from the U.S. government.
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