During the Ohio election rally, the former US President and the Republican candidate in the 2024 elections, Donald Trump, on Sunday, March 17, told the story of a telephone conversation, which, he said, took place with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky five years ago. This conversation, according to him, concerned the son of the current US President Joe Baiden, Hunter. Trump claimed that he "outlined the opponents-democrats", published the so-called "recording", which became a key argument during his impeachment.
In July 2019, a telephone conversation between the Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the former US President Donald Trump took place. During this conversation, Trump, according to the witness, asked Zelensky to "do him a favor" and restore the investigation associated with Hunner Biden, the son of the then chief of the principal Joe Biden, who was Trump's main competitor in the 2020 elections.
For five years, Hunter Biden has been a member of the Board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest gas companies in Ukraine, and has become the object of allegations of corruption by Republicans.
A few months after that conversation, the Trump administration published a transcript that recorded the content of the conversation. Democrats in Congress were considered this request as a potential betrayal, which caused the impeachment procedure against Trump.
According to CNN, Trump stated that his opponents from the Democratic Party were spreading "more wild" interpretations of the content of the conversation, but when the record was published, the situation changed.
Trump claims that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nancy Pelosi, when he heard the recording, was angry with her parties for spreading "false" interpretations of the conversation. She, she said, said, "What the hell is you taking me? Did you hear this call?
Trump concluded that after the Democrats told the "fictional story" and heard the record, they were disappointed because they did not expect the conversation. "This was a great case of recording a telephone conversation. And they were destroyed when they found it out," Trump said CNN.
According to CNN journalists, the story that Trump told is a complete fiction. No recording of his conversation with Zelensky has been published, and this is a common practice, as the presidential conversations with foreign leaders are usually recorded by the US side. Instead, they are recorded in writing through software and American officials who listen to them.
Nancy Pelosi representative, Aaron Bennett, commenting on Trump's story, called it "nonsense devoid of facts." Former US Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Windman, who was present during Trump's conversation with Zelensky and was a chief expert from Ukraine in the White House National Security Council (and later became an important witness to impeachment), CNN said that there was no conversation.
"He is lying," Windman said.
It should be reminded that on December 19, 2019, the House of Congress representatives supported both articles against Trump as part of the impeachment procedure. Pelosi announced the beginning of the Trump impeachment procedure, which was the result of the publication of his conversation with Zelensky. US media reported that Trump used US Vice President Mike Penso for pressure on Zelensky.
At the end of December 2019, Donald Trump said he was interested in the issue of military assistance to Ukraine a month before a scandalous telephone conversation with Zelensky.
