Trump's Ukraine call transcript: Read the document
Read the transcript of Trump's call with Ukrainian president
The White House on Wednesday released a declassified transcript of President Trump's July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It showed that Trump sought a review of former Vice President Joe Biden's efforts to have Ukraine's former top prosecutor fired. The president made the request on the call only after Zelensky first mentioned Ukraine's corruption issues, and after Trump separately requested as a "favor" that Ukraine help investigate foreign interference in the 2016 elections, including the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server involving the data security company CrowdStrike.
The White House on Wednesday released a declassified transcript of President Trump's July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It showed that Trump sought a review of former Vice President Joe Biden's efforts to have Ukraine's former top prosecutor fired. The president made the request on the call only after Zelensky first mentioned Ukraine's corruption issues, and after Trump separately requested as a "favor" that Ukraine help investigate foreign interference in the 2016 elections, including the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server involving the data security company CrowdStrike.
Multiple news outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post, inaccurately reported that the "favor" related specifically to investigating Biden. The transcript also did not show that Trump leveraged military aid to Ukraine to obtain a "promise" on a Biden investigation, as a widely cited report in the Post had claimed. Click here to read the transcript.
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