US president ‘willing to provide’ transcript of 2nd Ukraine call
US President Donald Trump has voiced willingness to provide the transcript of a second call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after the first scandalous one kicked off an impeachment.
“They want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call, and I'm willing to provide that,” Trump said Saturday. "You'll read the second call, and you'll tell me if there's anything wrong with it."
An impeachment inquiry is underway in US House based on the accusations that the president tied $400 million in military aid to Ukraine to Kiev’s compliance with his request to investigate his potential 2020 opponent, Joe Biden.
"There shouldn't be anything. There shouldn't be impeachment hearings," Trump said.
The president and his Republican allies have started adding their opponents’ names to the wish list of witnesses, awaiting to testify against him in public hearings.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has asserted that he would refuse “sham” investigations by the Republicans.
“This inquiry is not, and will not serve ... as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the President pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit, or to facilitate the President’s effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm,” Schiff said in a statement.
In December 2015, then-Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine to send a message to the Kiev government about the need to crack down on corruption.
Biden’s effort came despite the association of his son Hunter with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings.
President Trump and his allies have alleged that Biden had traveled to the country to blackmail the government and force officials to fire the country’s chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to derail an investigation into Burisma.
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