Now, a central question for Democratic lawmakers moving with remarkable speed to impeach him is the extent to which Trump entangled both his office and the machinery of the US government to spark investigations that would benefit him personally.The White House and Trump's aides have already put much of that evidence on public display.
Giuliani has said the State Department helped arrange meetings with aides to Zelenskiy, posting a copy of a text message from a U.S. diplomat on Twitter.And much of the episode played out at a time when Trump's administration had suspended security aid that the U.S. government had earmarked for Ukraine to help it contain threats from Russia.
The whistleblower said multiple White House officials reported being"deeply disturbed" by the president's call with Zelenskiy,"because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain". In March, Ukraine's then-prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, claimed in an interview with The Hill that Biden had pressured Ukrainian officials to fire another prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to end an investigation into an Burisma Holdings, an energy company whose board included Biden's son Hunter.
Giuliani acknowledged in May that he was planning to head to Ukraine to press for an investigation of the Bidens."We're not meddling in an election, we're meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do," he told The New York Times at the time.
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