WASHINGTON - An official on the White House's National Security Council said he heard the US ambassador to the European Union press Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, according to a transcript released on Friday by Democrats leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
His comments could give Democrats further ammunition in their push to determine whether Trump misused US foreign policy to pressure Ukraine into carrying out a corruption probe into Democrat Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election. Sondland, a Trump donor-turned-diplomat, acknowledged he encouraged Ukraine to investigate Burisma but said he did not know that Hunter Biden had served on the company's board.
Lawmakers wanted to question the two officials about their knowledge of OMB's decision last summer to block, without explanation to Congress, nearly US$400 million in security aid for Ukraine that had been approved by lawmakers. "They shouldn't be having public hearings; this is a hoax," Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing, told reporters.
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