BREAKING: For the first time, Trump appears to connect the idea of investigating Joe Biden to the issue of foreign aid 'Why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt?'
President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his attempts to justify a phone call with Ukraine’s president in which he reportedly pushed for an investigation into one of his chief political rivals, maintaining that he‘s merely concerned about stamping out corruption.
Trump’s defense comes as reports of the call have reinvigorated a push for his impeachment by Democrats who say the president’s decision to urge an investigation into Biden was out of bounds. Also at issue with critics of the president is $250 million in foreign aid meant for Ukraine that the White House mysteriously withheld before releasing under bipartisan pressure early this month.
Trump’s story has evolved somewhat in the days since House Democrats’ struggle to get an anonymous whistleblower complaint spilled out into the public and details about the contents of the complaint began leaking out into the press. Trump first danced around the subject of whether he brought up Biden, whom Trump has accused of using his vice presidential perch to fire a Ukranian prosecutor investigating the company connected to his son, Hunter.
Biden, for his part, has forcefully denied any wrongdoing and ripped Trump and his allies for suggesting otherwise. Over the weekend in Iowa, Biden called reports of Trump’s outreach an apparent “overwhelming abuse of power.” He's also called for Trump to release the transcript of his phone call with Zelensky, something the president has suggested was a possibility.
“These people are stone cold Crooked,” Trump said of his detractors in a tweet, before accusing the whistleblower of getting unspecified facts wrong.
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