BREAKING: NBC News Special Report: President Trump asked Ukraine president in phone call to look into why investigation of Joe Biden’s son ended, transcript shows.
, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
“ Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, It sounds horrible to me,” Trump told Zelenskiy during the 30-minute July 25 phone call. A transcript of the call was made public Wednesday by the Trump administration under pressure from Democrats who have launched aDownload theThe president's phone call — made from the White House residence to Zelenskiy — began with Trump congratulating Zelenskiy on his election victory."I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down, which is really unfair,” Trump says on the call, according to the transcript.
Trump then says,"There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, what 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.” “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said on the call, according to the transcript.That is the only mention about Biden in the transcript of the call. The call transcript is five pages.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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