The president said the White House will still not honor document requests or subpoenas despite Congress passing a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry.
The impeachment of Trump centers on his conduct towards Ukraine. He is suspected of withholding military aid from Ukraine to pressure the country into opening dubious corruption investigations into the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Those investigations would have potentially damaged both the party and Biden, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, at the next election. Some testimony by officials to the inquiry has corroborated the allegations. But Trump has denied any wrongdoing. He has defended his July 25 call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the White House has released an edited summary of that call, which Trump characterizes as a transcript.
During that call, Trump asked Zelenskiy for a"favor" and to open the investigations, the edited summary shows. Trump told the"At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it's a straight call," Trump told the publication.
But the call is only one piece of evidence in the impeachment inquiry. Discussions about withholding military aid from Ukraine, and also dangling a potential White House meeting for Zelenskiy, allegedly took place elsewhere.
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