While it drew some buzz at the time, the Washington Post editorial mostly went under the radar despite making the damning allegation that Trump was urging a foreign leader to probe a political rival — more than two weeks before the scandal fully broke open
The White House’s release of a readout of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president largely vindicates a Washington Post editorial from Sept. 5 that first revealed that Trump had pressured Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden.
While the details of the call released on Wednesday do not show Trump explicitly trying to “extort” Zelensky, they still back up the editorial’s bombshell revelation. Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt told POLITICO that “a lot of reporting goes into most of our editorials, and it’s not that rare for us to break news, on local or national stories.”
Since May, Giuliani has suggested Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in March 2016 to benefit his son Hunter Biden’s business interests in the country, claims for which there isHiatt acknowledged the editorial side of the paper doesn’t have “the resources nor the mission of the news side,” which he praised for its “amazing job on this story for the past week.” He added that “we and they both totally respect the separation of news and opinion.
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