Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj denied that US President Donald Trump had urged him to investigate US presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. He is constitutionally not authorized to do so, said Selenskyj, according to a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo News.
"I was never pressured," said the Ukrainian president. There were never any conditions for a possible meeting with Trump. The sale of anti-tank guided missiles to the Ukraine had not been subject to any conditions.
This was the first time that Selenskyj has spoken to foreign media about the speculation Trump might cost.
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Ukrainian prosecutors would address any request from the US and cooperate in investigations, admitted Selenskyj, but "within our laws". According to the Ukrainian Constitution, as president, he has no power to convince the Attorney General or the investigative authorities to investigate a specific case.
In a memo released by the White House on a conversation between Trump and Selensky, the American is said to have asked the Ukrainian president "to do us a favor" by examining the US Democrats' role in Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Selenskyj is said to have answered that they will look at the matter. Because of the Ukraine affair, the US Democrats have begun preparations for impeachment Trump.
Trump accuses Biden of trying to sack the Ukrainian Attorney General as US Vice President to protect his son Hunter from the judiciary. At that time Hunter Biden was employed by a Ukrainian gas company, against which at times was determined. Joe Biden rejects the allegations as groundless and politically motivated.
Biden to Trump: "You will not destroy me"
Joe Biden is campaigning for Democratic presidential candidacy for the 2020 election. On Saturday, he wrote to Trump on Twitter: "You will not destroy me, and you will not destroy my family." In the presidential election in November 2020, he would beat Trump "like a drum".
And to Trump and those who facilitate his abuses of power, and all the special interests. You will not destroy me, and you will not destroy my family. And come November 2020, I intend to beat you like a drum.
- Joe Biden (@ JoeBiden) October 6, 2019In a post in the Washington Post, Biden wrote that "more evidence was revealed every hour to prove that Trump abused the power of the presidency" and was "totally unfit to be president". He uses the highest office of the state to represent his personal political interests instead of national ones.