Download PDF version of this memorandum. Trump, under pressure to release the transcript, had already confirmed he had discussed Biden with Zelensky and confirmed he slow-walked aid to Ukraine, although he claimed the two acts were unrelated.
That call and a whistleblower complaint involving Mr. Trump have pushed growing numbers of Democrats to call for impeachment proceedings, which are now formally beginning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday afternoon.
Responding to the release of the memorandum, Mr. Trump told reporters Wednesday that he was subject to "the single greatest witch hunt in American history, probably in history. Trump said "there was no pressure whatsoever" put on Zelensky, adding that "it turned out to be a nothing call. When asked by reporters about the call on Wednesday in a joint press conference with Mr.
Trump, Zelensky said that "nobody pushed me. In a statement, Justice Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec said that the Justice Department had determined that "there was no campaign finance violation and that no further action was warranted. The inspector general's letter cited a conversation between the president and Ukrainian President Zelensky as a potential violation of federal campaign finance law, while acknowledging that neither the inspector general nor the complainant had firsthand knowledge of the conversation," Kupec said.
All relevant components of the department agreed with this legal conclusion, and the department has concluded this matter," Kupec concluded. In another statement, Kupec said that Barr had not spoken with Mr. Trump about Ukraine investigating Biden, and that the president had not asked Barr to contact Ukraine or Giuliani. Government intelligence activity, and the alleged misconduct does not involve any member of the intelligence community" in order to qualify as an "urgent concern.
The President: 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.
There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. 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. President Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation.
We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer.
I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people.
I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly..
That I can assure you. The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Giuliani is a highly respected man.
He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. President Zelensky : Thank you very much. I would be very happy to come and would be happy to meet with you personally and get to know you better. I am looking forward to our meeting and I also would like to invite you to visit Ukraine and come to the city of Kiev which is a beautiful city.
We have a beautiful country which would welcome you. On the other hand, I believe that on September 1 we will be in Poland and we can meet in Poland hopefully. After that, it might be a very good idea for you to travel to Ukraine. We can either take my plane and go to Ukraine or we can take your plane, which is probably much better than mine.
The President : Okay, we can work that out. I look forward to seeing you in Washington and maybe in Poland because I think we are going to be there at that time. The whole world was watching. No Paywall Here! The Internet Patrol is and always has been free. We don't hide our articles behind a paywall, or restrict the number of articles you can read in a month if you don't give us money. That said, it does cost us money to run the site, so if something you read here was helpful or useful, won't you consider donating something to help keep the Internet Patrol free?
Thank you! Get notified of new Internet Patrol articles! Great call, Capt. Democrats should get to work on things that matter. They have wasted 3 years and hundreds of millions of tax dollars on this bigoted obsession. I believe they will be sorry they took up this crusade. Trump asked a foreign country to investigate a political opponent. Shakespeare wrote about this in his play Much Ado About Nothing.
This is no different of a conversation than any other conversation with a foreign leader by any of the POTUSes we have had since I was born in I am not a Republican or Democrat.
I would like to see both parties stop wasting tons of money slinging mud at each other. There are far better things the money could go towards. Leland, you basically said exactly what I did not get here quick enough to say. A calm, intelligent, unbiased observer would conclude that being human, things were said and done by ALL parties that were unfortunate.
Remember MH17 shot down by Russians killing people? Had Obama given them aid. During the time Trump has been in office approximately 1, people have been killed in the fighting. What were Obama and Biden doing during the same period of time that resulted in more the 4, people dying? They were withhold aid for those 3 years. Trump was wrapping up an inquiry that delayed aid for 14 days. Kent himself tried to bring his concerns to the State Department.
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