Two weeks before President Donald Trump’s infamous phone call in which he pressured the Ukrainian president for political dirt, administration officials applied similar pressure in person to the Ukrainian government — at the White House.
Trump’s now-infamous July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he pushed the leader to dig up dirt on Democrats, has crowded headlines and cable news commentary for weeks. But the White House gathering two weeks earlier was in many ways a precursor to that call, and is just as important to the emerging story of the White House’s pressure campaign.
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Source:: TPM
