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Title: Ukraine’s president says there was no blackmail in Trump call
Post by: mystery-ak on October 10, 2019, 01:15:16 pm
Ukraine’s president says there was no blackmail in Trump call
Published 5 hours ago
Holly Ellyatt
@HollyEllyatt

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said there was no blackmail involved during a telephone call with President Trump that has set in motion an impeachment inquiry.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday there was no blackmail involved during a telephone call with President Donald Trump that has since set in motion an impeachment inquiry.

Zelensky has come under pressure to shed light on a phone call with Trump in July in which the U.S. president appeared to ask Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential race, and his son Hunter Biden who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

Trump repeatedly tells Zelensky that the U.S. has been “very, very good” to Ukraine, a non-verbatim transcript of the call showed. Zelensky told him that Ukraine, a country that relies on international financial and defense aid and is vulnerable compared to its powerful Russian neighbor, would work on the investigation.

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Title: Re: Ukraine’s president says there was no blackmail in Trump call
Post by: skeeter on October 10, 2019, 01:19:05 pm
The release of the transcript should have been the end of the 'impeachment' talk. THIS should mean the end of it.

But it won't because right or wrong has nothing to do with it. The state leviathan will continue chugging along.
Title: Re: Ukraine’s president says there was no blackmail in Trump call
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on October 10, 2019, 02:18:46 pm
Blackmail?  no.  Extortion? :pondering: