WEST POINT, NY - MAY 26: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden makes his way down a row of cadets as he arrives to address to graduates of The United States Military Academy at West Point May 26, 2012 in West Point, New York. Approximately 1,000 members of the Class of 2012 will receive Bachelor of Science degrees and be commissioned as second lieutenants in the US Army. (Photo: Getty Images)
President Donald Trump continuously asked the Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son “about eight times during” one phone call in July.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump urged Zelensky to work with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, on an investigation.
Trump defended his July call with Zelensky as “totally appropriate” but declined to say what the conversation was about.
“It doesn’t matter what I discussed,” he said.
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Giuliani admitted during an interview for CNN that he had asked the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden.
“So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?” asked CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
“Of course I did,” said Giuliani.
The startling admission comes days after an “urgent” whistleblower complaint alleging Trump had a conversation with a Ukrainian leader and made an “alarming” promise, was blocked from being disclosed to congress.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) wrote in a tweet “If the President, in his official capacity, asked a foreign government to dig up dirt on a political opponent, Congress cannot let that stand. Our silence could doom the republic.”
He added in a second tweet that the revelation that this would be the second presidential election to have allegations of international interference.
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