LIVE: Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on sidelines of UNGA. A summary of the phone call between the two leaders shows Trump pressed Zelensky to probe rival Joe Biden
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S. attorney general and his personal lawyer, according to a summary of an explosive July phone call released by the Trump administration on Wednesday.
According to the administration’s summary, Trump told Zelenskiy that Attorney General William Barr, the top U.S. law enforcement official, and Rudy Giuliani would speak to him about re-opening a Ukrainian investigation into a Ukrainian gas company for which Biden’s son Hunter had served as director. According to the summary, Zelenskiy responds that Trump is “1,000%” right, and thanks Trump for “your great support in the area of defense” and expresses interest in making another U.S. arms purchase.
“I also want to ensure you that we will be very serious about the case and will work on the investigation,” Zelenskiy added. “The President has tried to make lawlessness a virtue in America and now is exporting it abroad. ... It is not part of his job to use taxpayer money to shake down other countries for the benefit of his campaign,” Pelosi said.
Justice Department officials concluded last week that Trump’s conduct on the call did not amount to a criminal violation of campaign finance law because what he was asking for - an investigation of a political rival - did not amount to a quantifiable “thing of value,” said a senior Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The United States, European countries and others had pushed for the ouster of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the energy company because he was not pursuing it aggressively enough. The prosecutor who replaced him, Yuriy Lutsenko, told Reuters on Friday that no wrongdoing was found on the part of Biden’s son in his relationship with the energy firm.
Pelosi would not commit to an impeachment timetable but Judiciary Committee Democrat David Cicilline said articles of impeachment could move to the House floor in a matter of weeks, if the allegations against Trump prove true.
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