WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump pressed the Ukrainian president in a July call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son, according to a person familiar with the conversation, an apparently blatant mixture of foreign policy with his 2020 reelection campaign.Trump also repeatedly told
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pressed the Ukrainian president in a July call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, according to a person familiar with the conversation, an apparently blatant mixture of foreign policy with his 2020 reelection campaign.
The revelations added urgency to questions about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, which is battling Russian-controlled separatists in the country’s east. When the president sought the Biden investigation, the Trump administration’s military aid to Ukraine had been frozen for weeks. Story continuesAny attempt by Trump to ask a foreign power to “dig up dirt” on a political rival while withholding aid is corrupt, said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the panels examining Trump’s Ukraine dealings.
Trump and Giuliani have pressed for an investigation of the Bidens for weeks, after reports this year in The New York Times and elsewhere examined whether a Ukrainian energy company sought to buy influence in Washington by hiring Biden’s younger son, Hunter Biden. The younger Biden had a lobbying business in Ukraine while his father was vice president.
He also said the allegations that he or his son committed wrongdoing in Ukraine were baseless. “Not one single outlet has given any credibility to his assertion,” Biden told reporters after a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mounting evidence that the White House was involved in the effort to withhold the complaint from lawmakers has stirred anger on Capitol Hill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Maguire of violating the law.
“They have no shame,” said Michael Carpenter, a former aide to Biden and expert on Ukraine. He added: “They released the assistance in mid-September after the bipartisan uproar over the freeze — and under pressure from the House investigations. But strikingly, the administration never articulated why the assistance was frozen in the first place.”
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