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Live updates: Trump to meet with Ukraine’s Zelensky following release of transcript of July call
By John Wagner
September 25 at 10:06 AM
A transcript released Wednesday of President Trump’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky showed Trump offering the help of the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and promising Zelensky a White House meeting after he promised to conduct such an inquiry.
The latest development in the burgeoning controversy over the July call came on a day in which Trump was also scheduled to meet with Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in the afternoon.
The July 25 call has been the subject of intense scrutiny since The Washington Post
reported last week that a whistleblower had come forward with concerns about the matter. It has ignited an impeachment drive in the House, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announcing Tuesday the launch of a formal inquiry and accusing Trump of violating the Constitution in seeking help from a foreign leader to damage a political opponent.
Trump has acknowledged publicly that he asked Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son, who served on the board of a Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that came under scrutiny by authorities there. ... Trump has denied doing anything improper, but lawmakers have raised concerns about
his directive to freeze nearly $400 million in military assistance for Ukraine in the days leading up the phone call with Zelensky.
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Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky and John Hudson contributed to this report.
John Wagner is a national reporter who leads The Post's new breaking political news team. He previously covered the Trump White House. During the 2016 presidential election, he focused on the Democratic campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley. He also chronicled Maryland government for more than a decade. Follow
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