Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has called for an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden and his son. More here:
DES MOINES, Iowa/WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Saturday called for an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden and his son.
Trump’s July 25 telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is at the center of an escalating battle over a whistleblower’s complaint reportedly concerning the U.S. leader’s dealings with Ukraine that the administration has refused to give Congress. Biden has admitted threatening to withhold aid unless the prosecutor was dismissed, a demand also made by the wider U.S. government, the European Union and other international institutions for his alleged failure to pursue major corruption cases.
Trump denied doing anything improper. He wrote in a series of tweets on Saturday that his conversation with Zelenskiy was “perfectly fine and routine.” He accused the “Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party” of staying “as far away as possible” from the Biden allegations. “You should be looking at Trump. Everybody looked at this and everybody who’s looked at it said there’s nothing there. Ask the right question,” continued Biden. “You should be asking him the question: why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader?”
At the steak fry, Biden called on voters to oust Trump but did not mention Ukraine. “Above all else we must defeat Donald Trump period and stop his abuse of power,” Biden said.
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