White house phone recordings confirm why trump investigated Biden and his son
With the continuous fermentation of the "phone gate" incident, after US House Speaker Pelosi announced on the 24th that he officially launched the impeachment investigation against trump, US President trump then responded on twitter that he would publish a "complete, completely decrypted and uncut call record" on the 25th. "
Sure enough, on the 25th local time, the White House released a five page call record between trump and Zelensky. CNN said that according to the call record of the White House, trump had repeatedly pressed Ukraine to investigate Biden.
CNN said that according to the telephone records in July, President trump had repeatedly asked Ukrainian President Zelensky to re interview Joe middot; Joe Biden and his son (Hunter & middot; Biden) launched an investigation and asked Ukrainian leaders to cooperate with their lawyer Rudy & middot; Giuliani and Attorney General William & middot; Barr cooperation.
It is reported that although there are no obvious exchange conditions from this call record, trump told Zelensky that the United States has always been "very good" to Ukraine. Zelensky agreed with this and said that in terms of sanctions against Russia, the United States is a more powerful partner of Ukraine "than other European countries". Trump then said, 'I want you to do us a favor, because our country has experienced a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.'?
Regarding the request for Ukrainian leaders to cooperate with the attorney general mentioned in the call record, the US Department of justice subsequently issued a statement saying that trump had not talked with the attorney general about asking Ukraine to investigate Biden. In its statement, the Ministry of justice used "four noes" to prove that it has nothing to do with this matter, that is, "trump has not talked with the Minister of justice about anything that allows Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son", "trump has not asked the Minister of justice to contact Ukraine (investigate Biden)", "the Minister of justice has not communicated with Ukraine on this issue (investigate Biden)", "and" the Minister of justice has not talked with Rudy & middot; Giuliani has discussed anything related to Ukraine '.
On the 24th, Nancy & middot, speaker of the US House of Representatives; Pelosi issued a television statement announcing that the house of representatives officially launched an impeachment investigation into trump. Pelosi said that the president must "take responsibility" for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden's son. "No one can override the law." Trump immediately responded that the Democratic Party was engaged in "witch hunting" and creating "junk news", and named Pelosi and other Democrats for criticism.