about the personal and political benefit from the announcement of the investigation. over the next couple of weeks ambassador sondland and kurt volker worked with the aide. when the aide t proposed a statement that did not include specific references to the investigations that president trump wanted, the burisma and biden investigation, mr. de giuliani relayed that would not be good enoughay to get a white house meeting. andwh here you can see a comparison on the left of the original statement drafted by the topft aide to mr. zelensky d on the right a revised statement with mr. giuliani s requirements. itir says we intend to initiate and complete a transparent and unbiassed investigation of all available facts and episodes including those involving burisma and the 2016 u.s.
know, during the presidential campaign in the united states the ukrainian government adopted a unilateral position in favor ofn one candidate. more than that, certain oligarchs,ai certainly with a approval of the political leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by president trump and his associates, president putin made it very clear very recently when heen said thank god no one is accusing us any more of interfering with u.s.re electio. now they are accusing ukraine. in a the face of clear evidence not only from intelligence community experts but from his own national security team, that russia not ukraine interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, president trump still d pressed the ukrainian government to announce ania investigation int this conspiracyto theory and wh?
duringe that call, president trump asked for the favor of these two political investigations immediately aftei the ukrainian president brought up u.s. militaryn support for ukraine which president trump had recently suspended or put o hold. and at the end of the call, president zelensky made a point of acknowledging the link between thegi investigations th president trump inrequested, an thep white house meeting that president zelenskyet desperatel wanted. d then the following day, ambassador sondland confirmed tl president trump on the telephone in person, that the ukrainians would, indeed n-shy it a the investigations discussed on the call. which weren the only which o the only thing about ukraine thatbo president trump cared about. now, it s very important to t understand that this investigationun revealed that t july 25th call was neither the start nor the end of president trump s efforts to use the