Ukraine’s president would like to be excluded from this narrative
asked his acting chief of staff to put on hold just days before his phone call with Zelensky. While Trump has denied that a quid pro quo took place between the two leaders, Democrats accused Trump of betraying his oath of office in asking a foreign government to investigate a political opponent. Biden is a front-runner among the Democrats running against Trump in next year's election.A line-by-line analysis of the conversation that launched an impeachment inquiry.
The White House memo introduced a new twist to the Trump-Zelensky story, that Trump informed the Ukrainian president that he planned to enlist U.S. Attorney General William Barr to assist in gathering potential dirt on Biden. Trump has asserted repeatedly that his only intention in seeking a probe of the Bidens was to help Zelensky fulfill his campaign promise of rooting out corruption in Ukraine. The president and his supporters have argued that it is Biden who was corrupt in pushing for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who'd been widely criticized by the international community.
But Zelensky, for his part, underscored that Ukraine is an independent country, explaining on Wednesday that "I can't push anyone." Still, he said through a translator, "we have a new prosecutor general in the Ukraine, a highly professional man with a western education. He's free to investigate anything he considers and deems appropriate," adding that "we have many more issues to care about and tackle" including corruption.
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