With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — after months of adamant opposition to impeaching President Donald Trump — having changed her mind this week in response to the Ukraine scandal, the White House is making sure it has its talking points in order. Those Ukraine talking points have been sent to House Democrats in a document titled “What You Need to Know: President Trump’s Call With President Zelensky,” and Politico’s Andrew Desiderio has posted screenshots of the document on Twitter.
According to reports, Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to help dig up dirt on a political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden during a phone conversation on July 25. And the White House, in its list of talking points, tries to make the conversation sound innocent.
In the document, the White House claims that the press has been promoting “flat-out falsehoods about the call” — for example, the White House denies that Trump urged Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, and that Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine if they weren’t investigated. The White House insists that during the conversation, there was “no mention of the aid package to Ukraine at all.”
View the complete September 25 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.