Donald Trump, in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Selensky, has initiated an investigation that could harm his political rival Joe Biden. This is clear from a copy of the July 25th conversation published by the White House.
Trump's mention of Biden is about former business of his son Hunter in the Ukraine. Biden is said to have protected his son as vice president from corruption investigations, by causing the dismissal of a prosecutor.
In the phone call to Selensky, Trump said it would be good "if they could check that ... it sounds terrible to me". Biden rejects the allegations as irrelevant.
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Democrats in the House of Representatives had started preparations for impeachment on Tuesday. They accuse him of dealing with Ukraine constitutional breach. According to the Democrats, Trump is said to have tried to influence the US election campaign with the help of a foreign government.
Trump wanted to refute the allegations of the Democrats with the publication of the transcript. He rejects the allegations and speaks of a bad campaign of the Democrats.
Selenskyi had previously not commented on the case in a speech to the UN.
