Ukrainian president dodges when asked if he felt pressured by Trump

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Ukraine’s president would like to be excluded from this narrative

asked his acting chief of staff to put on hold just days before his phone call with Zelensky. While Trump has denied that a quid pro quo took place between the two leaders, Democrats accused Trump of betraying his oath of office in asking a foreign government to investigate a political opponent. Biden is a front-runner among the Democrats running against Trump in next year's election.A line-by-line analysis of the conversation that launched an impeachment inquiry.

The White House memo introduced a new twist to the Trump-Zelensky story, that Trump informed the Ukrainian president that he planned to enlist U.S. Attorney General William Barr to assist in gathering potential dirt on Biden. Trump has asserted repeatedly that his only intention in seeking a probe of the Bidens was to help Zelensky fulfill his campaign promise of rooting out corruption in Ukraine. The president and his supporters have argued that it is Biden who was corrupt in pushing for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who'd been widely criticized by the international community.

But Zelensky, for his part, underscored that Ukraine is an independent country, explaining on Wednesday that "I can't push anyone." Still, he said through a translator, "we have a new prosecutor general in the Ukraine, a highly professional man with a western education. He's free to investigate anything he considers and deems appropriate," adding that "we have many more issues to care about and tackle" including corruption.

 

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Nope, nobody pushed him.

I wouldn’t either.

He didn’t come out covered in glory whichever way you look at it

you can’t write one single article without a lie in the title and your bias clearly showing.🤣🤣

Of course he did...... Putin will be waiting if he opens his mouth

The answer for ALL leaders:. Don't take any calls from Trump!! He is certifiably ill and totally incompetent.

More Politico FakeNEWS ... he ALREADY said in a released statement he was NOT PRESSURED & he also followed up today saying he was NOT PRESSURED .... it was pretty obvious his english was very limited .... he did not know the words Politico is NOT attempting honest journalism

Why the spin? He said no.

He also said he was not pressured. Why are idiots in corrupt media trying to spin this? Afraid of JoeBiden & son corruption investigation? 💰💰💰

Didn't Zelensky also say u(in Ukrainian that sounded like it was translated a bit after) that even though Trump asked for an investigation, Ukraine has much more important things to investigate? I wish one of you would go back and listen to that & report! He stood up to Trump!

You must have a different definition of dodged than I do

More Fake News from Politico. Are we surprised?

Fake news he didn't dodge try reporting facts

And so does the American electorate but here we are. ImpeachmentInquiry. VoteBlue2020

I believe what he said was, that he didn’t want to get involved in our electoral process. But he did say he was not pushed by Trump to do anything. So I think your story is a bit misleading.

Too late comrade. If you dance with the devil...

He didn’t dodge the question. He answered it very loudly and clearly:

He said explicitly he wasnt pressured...

And people in hell want ice water.

He is in the middle..sadly.. due to Biff.. all about Biff...

Why don't you include the part where he said he wasn't pushed?

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