The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine
expressed his shared commitment to, quote, root out corruption, unquote, president trump in fact did not mention corruption at all on this call, just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call. shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelensky s inauguration. but on may 13th, president trump did an about face and directed vice president pence not to attend. an adviser to vice president pence testified the inauguration had not yet been scheduled and therefore the reason for the abrupt change of plans was not related to any scheduling issues. so what had happened in the three weeks between april 21th and may 13th when vice president pence was originally invite and then disinvited or removed from the delegation? a few things. first, on april 25th, vice president biden formally announced his bid for the
between president trump and president zelensky, did you prepare a talking points for the president to use during that call? yes, i did. and did those talking points include rooting out corruption in ukraine? yes. that was something that the president was supposed to raise in the conversation with president zelensky? those were the recommended talking points that were cleared through the nsc staff for the president, yes. did you listen in on that call? yes, i did. the white house has now released the record of that call. did president trump ever mention corruption in the april 21th call? to the best of my wreck electio recollection, he did not. and on the april 21st call, president trump told president zelensky that he would send a high level u.s. delegation to the inauguration. following that call, ms.