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The transcript, which was declassified the previous day, is considered to be a solid rendition of the July 25th phone call which took place from 9:03 a.m. to 9:33 a.m.
The call begins with Trump congratulating Zelensky on his winning the election. The conversation eventually broaches the subject of Joe and Hunter Biden.
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump said. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.”
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump said. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.”
The Democrats have accused Trump of pressuring Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden even before reading the transcript and the whistleblower's complaint. [This tactic is in the spirit of Nancy Pelosi's saying of Obamacare that Congress should pass it so that we can know what's in it.]
The transcript shows Zelensky suggesting to Trump the Biden matter would be looked into by a new prosecutor. “He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue, the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and we will work on the investigation of the case.”
The president told Zelensky he wanted his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General Bill Barr to get involved.
The transcript shows Zelensky suggesting to Trump the Biden matter would be looked into by a new prosecutor. “He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue, the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and we will work on the investigation of the case.”
The president told Zelensky he wanted his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General Bill Barr to get involved.
“I will have Mr. Giuliani give you call and I’m also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom if it. I’m sure you will figure it out,” he said.
Before the transcript was released, Democrats accused Trump of improperly using his office to pressure another country to investigate one of his chief Democratic rivals. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has repeatedly referred to the impeachment push as a partisan “witch-hunt.”
No Democrat, however, mentioned the Steele dossier, created by a former foreign spy, Christopher Steele, and paid for by the Clinton campaign with the purpose of finding "dirt" on Trump.
No Democrat mentioned the "hot mic" moment when then President Obama told Dmitry Medvedev that after the 2012 election, he would have "more flexibility."
The country has become dangerously polarized.
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