Investigations sought by mr. Trump into his political rivals, according to three people briefed on the effort. The drafting of the statement marks new evidence of how mr. Trumps fixation with ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American Foreign policy to the president s political agenda in the weeks after the july 25th call between the two leaders. So just backing up for a minute here, july 25th is when President Trump has his phone call with ukraines new president. And according to the white houses own notes on the call, the ukrainian leader brought up military aid that his country was expecting from the u. S. , military aid that donald trump had put on hold. Donald trump said to him on that call, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He asked the ukrainian president help cast doubt on russias responsibility for attacking the 2016 u. S. Election. Then he asked him for help ginning up dirt on trumps potential political rival joe biden. The white house put the not
President in august that would have committed ukraine to pursuing investigations sought by mr. Trump into his political rifl rivals, according to three people briefed on the effort. The drafting of the statement marks new evidence of how mr. Trumps fixation with ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American Foreign policy to the president s political agenda in the weeks after the july 25th call between the two leaders. So just backing up for a minute here, july 25th is when President Trump has his phone call with ukraines new president. And according to the white houses own notes on the call, the ukrainian leader brought up military aid that his country was expecting from the u. S. , military aid that donald trump had put on hold. Donald trump said to him on that call, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. He asked the ukrainian president help cast doubt on russias responsibility for attacking the 2016 u. S. Election. Then he asked him for help ginning up dirt on