President Trump just tweeted that he authorized the release of the transcript of the controversial Ukraine call at the center of calls for impeachment proceedings by House Democrats.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has authorized the release Wednesday of a complete trancript of his phone call with Ukraine's president.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019 in New York City.President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has authorized the release Wednesday of a complete trancript of a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Trump administration has been resisting demands by Congress to release information about a complaint made by a whistleblower in the intelligence community, which is believed to relate to a call Trump had with a foreign leader this summer.
They have suggested that Joe Biden himself improperly pressured that country's leaders in 2016 to fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor there, because of concern that Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, a Ukraine natural gas company whose board Hunter Biden served on.
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