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Transcript Shows Trump Asked Ukraine President to Probe Political Foe Biden

Steve Herman

   Myroslava Gongadze in Washington and Celia Mendoza in New York
   contributed to this report.

   NEW YORK/CAPITOL HILL -- U.S. President Donald Trump asked Ukranian
   President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate if Democratic presidential
   contender and former Vice President Joe Biden shut down a probe into a
   Ukrainian company that employed his son, according to a summary of a
   transcript of a July telephone call between the two leaders.

   Democrats have accused Trump, who is seeking re-election next year, of
   seeking Zelenskiy's help to dampen Biden's chances of winning the
   Democratic presidential nomination.

   "There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the
   prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so
   whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great," Trump
   said, according to the summary released Wednesday by White House.

   "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you
   can look into it '¦ It sounds horrible to me," the transcript summary
   said.
   Transcript of conversation released by White House on Sept. 25, 2019

   Impeachment inquiry

   The summary's disclosure comes one day after Democratic Speaker of the
   House Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump
   and allegations that he sought a foreign government's help with his
   2020 reelection bid.

   Pelosi accused Trump of betraying his oath of office, U.S. national
   security and the security of U.S. elections.

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