Trump, with Ukraine’s president by his side, defends call to investigate Biden by stableford & realchriswilson
Amid mounting calls for President Trump’s impeachment over his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump met face-to-face with Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
Hunter Biden served until earlier this year on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, and was paid a reported $50,000 monthly salary. “I would like you to do us a favor,” Trump told Zelensky before asking him to look into both Biden and his son, and for Ukraine’s help investigating the 2016 hacking of a Democratic National Committee server.
“I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it,” Trump said, according to the White House memo.The call is reportedly part of a whistleblower’s complaint against Trump which led to more Democratic calls for his impeachment. Trump also expressed the belief that emails erased from a server belonging to his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton might still exist in the Ukraine. During the campaign, Trump asked for help from Russia in tracking down the emails. The memo of his call with Zelensky shows Trump asking about an email server and CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that helped investigate the 2016 hack into the Democratic National Committee.
Zelensky brought up the annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea by Russia in 2014, and said he would like help from the United States in reclaiming the region. Trump responded that the invasion took place during"a different administration, not during the Trump administration."
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