Pres. Trump told Ukraine's president at least five times that he would task William Barr with assisting him in investigating former VP Joe Biden, according to the call summary released by the White House.
President Donald Trump told Ukraine's president at least five times that he would task Attorney General William Barr with assisting him in investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, according to the call summary released by the White House Wednesday.
"What adds another layer of depravity to this conversation is that the President of the United States then invokes the Attorney General of the United States as well as his personal lawyer as emissaries," House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Wednesday."In the case of the attorney general, as the official head of the U.S. Department -- the Department of Justice, that will be part and parcel in this.
The Justice Department's criminal division after reviewing the matter, however, determined that no campaign finance violations occurred, according to a DOJ official who briefed reporters Wednesday, and indicated there are no plans to review the president's actions further. DOJ officials told ABC News Wednesday that there was never consideration for Barr to recuse himself from the Criminal Division's review to avoid an appearance of impropriety, and that there was separately no consideration of appointing a special counsel to investigate the complaint.
In turn, Barr's opening of an inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation has provided further fuel for President Trump in his attacks against former intelligence officials who launched the investigation. Trump alluded to Barr's review by pressing the Ukrainian leader to investigate 'Crowdstrike,' a cybersecurity firm that first disclosed Russia's attempted to infiltrate the Democratic National Committee's servers ahead of the 2016 election, and questioned whether Ukraine currently possesses the DNC server.
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