Trump Ukraine scandal transcript shows president mentioned Biden in call – live

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A newly released transcript from the White House shows Trump discussed Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani and Robert Mueller with the Ukrainian president
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A newly released transcript from the White House shows Trump discussed Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani and special counsel Robert Mueller in his conversation with the Ukrainian president.
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Eiden 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. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it ... It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said.
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The blog briefly interrupts impeachment coverage to provide a critical update on another important matter: whether Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, was asleep during the president’s speech at the UN General Assembly yesterday.
It certainly looked that way to many viewers of the speech. At one point, a camera panned to Ross and other senior White House officials in the audience for several moments, during which the commerce secretary never opened his eyes.
Wilbur Ross appears to be sleeping. #unga pic.twitter.com/VGAwtFQAhc Continue reading...

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