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Background:
It is also clear from the transcript that the President meant to tie this request to Ukraine’s defense capability. Following the Ukrainian president’s reference to defense spending, President Trump immediately asks him to open investigations. Trump says:
“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it…. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”
The transcript also makes clear that President Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate issues related to his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and directly intervened to have his own Ambassador to Ukraine recalled.
The Ukrainian President said to President Trump: “I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.” The President then directly requested an investigation of his political opponent, stating:
“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. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it.”
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