White House appears to have inadvertently sent its talking points on President Trump's record of a call with the Ukrainian president to both Democratic and Republican offices.
to determine whether Trump sought help from a foreign leader to boost his campaign.
The release of the phone call came after intense pressure from Democrats, who were responding to reports that Trump pressured Zelenskiy into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. "I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair,” Trump says on the call, according to the description."There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great.”Though a quid pro quo was not explicit, Trump asks for the favor after discussing Ukrainian aid with Zelenskiy.
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