Full Document: Trump’s Call With the
Ukrainian President
Notes
(1) Mr. Trump alludes to American aid,
while not explicitly linking his request to
unfreezing it. At the time of this call, Mr. Trump
was holding back hundreds of millions of dollars in
military assistance to Ukraine that Congress had
appropriated to help that country fend off Russian
aggression.
(2) Mr. Trump brings up the idea of
reciprocity, suggesting that the United States has
been good to Ukraine even though something Ukraine
has done is not good. The next thing Mr. Trump said
— after Mr. Zelensky responded to this statement —
was to ask for investigations.
(3) Mr. Trump said Attorney General William P.
Barr would call the Ukrainian president about
another investigation. Mr. Trump appears to be
referencing an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory
pushed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s
personal lawyer, that Ukraine had some involvement
in the emails stolen from Democratic National
Committee.
(4) Mr. Trump is pushing Mr. Zelensky to deal
directly with Mr. Giuliani, his personal lawyer and
close ally. Mr. Giuliani has repeatedly pushed
conspiracy theories about the Bidens and encouraged
the Ukrainian government to ramp up investigations
into them.
(5) Here, Mr. Trump pushes the Ukrainian president
to get his country’s prosecutor to open an
investigation into former Vice President Joseph R.
Biden Jr. and his son, Hunter.
(6) Mr. Zelensky promises to do what Mr. Trump
is asking — launch an investigation into the Bidens
— but also asks Mr. Trump if he can provide any
information for Ukrainian investigators to look at.
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