“Certainly it is a very big issue and we’ll see what happens,” the president said in an interview with Politico that was published on Friday night. According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Trump, met with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Oval Office in October 2017 and “asked
1 / 2 -- President Donald Trump said it would be “an appropriate thing” to speak to Attorney General William Barr about allegations involving Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son over the son’s business interests in Ukraine.
It would be highly unusual for a president to request an investigation into a political opponent. According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Trump, met with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Oval Office in October 2017 and “asked him to ‘take [a] look’ at investigating” Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival in 2016.
Yet at the time the elder Biden made the ultimatum, the investigation into the company -- Burisma Holdings, owned by Mykola Zlochevsky -- had been long dormant, according to the former official, Vitaliy Kasko.
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