a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means. one, president trump acted both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government corruptly soliceded the government of ukraine to announce investigations into, a, a political opponent, joseph r. biden jr. and a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. two, with the same corrupt motives, president trump acted through his agents within and outside the united states government in addition to official acts on the public announcements that he had requested, a, the release of $391 million of united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpo
agents within and outside the u.s. government, he corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into a political opponent, former vice president joseph r. biden, jr. and into a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the u.s. presidential election. with the same corrupt motives president trump acting both directly and through his agents, conditioned two official acts on the public announcements he had requested. number one, the release of $391 million of u.s. taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated for the purpose of providing military security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggression in which president trump had ordered suspended. and also two, a head of state meeting at which the white house excuse me a head of state meeting at the white house in which the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate continued support for the government of ukraine in the
community had unanimously determined that russia not ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of mr. trump. there is appears to be a conflict. president trump is asking ukraine to request something and the majority decide it is an illegitimate request because there was no interference by ukraine, is that how you read this? yes, sir. and the press conference from the majority on their report says as part of this scheme, president trump acting in his official capacity and using his position of public trust personally and directly requested that the president of ukraine, that the government of of ukraine publicly announce investigations into subsection two, a baseless theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. election. is that true? yes.
says the u.s. intelligence community had unanimously determined that russia, not ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of president trump. mr. castor, there appears to be a conflict. president trump is asking the ukraine to investigate something the majority has decided that it is an illegitimate request because there was no interference in an election by the ukraine. is that how you read this? and the press release from the majority on their report says as part of this, president trump acting in his official capacity and using his a position of public trust requested that the president of ukraine and government of ukraine publicly announced investigations into a baseless theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2,016 u.s. election, is that true? yes.