Donald Trump is preparing to release further call records for telephone conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj. The Democrats could also have the notes for his first conversation with Selensky after taking office, Trump said.
The phone calls of US Vice President Mike Pence with the Ukrainian President Trump offered to the Democrats. The talks were all "perfect" been.
Although he does not like the idea of publishing such interview documents, he tries to be transparent, Trump says. He wanted to refute the allegations of the Democrats. The allegations that he wanted to exert pressure on the Ukrainian president in the phone call, he described again as a "witch hunt". Selenskyj later defended Trump and described the call as a "normal conversation".
Selenskyj irritated
However, Selenskyj is said to have been surprised by the measure to publish the complete interview. According to the Reuters news agency, Selenskyj told Ukrainian media that he had expected that only Trump's statements would be published. "I think that such talks between presidents of independent states sometimes should not be published", Selenskyj is quoted.
Trump, in a telephone conversation with Selenskyj at the end of July, had initiated an investigation that might harm his political rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
A call log published Wednesday by the White House, based on notes by staff present at the phone call, confirms this. A literal transcript of the conversation was not published. (Read the full length of the call log here)
The Democrats have announced because of the telephone call concrete steps for a possible impeachment Trump. They accuse the president of "mafia methods" and constitutional break. Trump resisted the allegations - he called a possible impeachment as a "joke".