Trump says permission obtained from Ukraine to release transcript of his call with Zelensky

25.09.2019 09:54

Ukrinform

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received the formal consent of the Ukrainian side to release a full transcript of a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky so as to prove that he did not press his Ukrainian counterpart.

"Secretary of State [Mike] Pompeo received permission from Ukraine Government to release the transcript of the telephone call I had with their President. They don't know either what the big deal is. A total Witch Hunt Scam by the Democrats!" Trump wrote on his Twitter account.

Trump on September 14 promised to release a transcript of a July 25 phone call with Zelensky, which became the subject of a recent political scandal in the United States. Prior to that, he stressed that such a practice was unacceptable because other world leaders would lose any trust in open telephone communication.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump over the whistleblower complaint on Trump's communication with Ukraine about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.