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The White House said it would release a declassified memo of Trump’s July call with Volodymyr Zelensky, and that only made the scandal harder to spin away. The rough transcript and the surrounding reporting sharpened the question of whether Trump used official U.S. power to push a foreign leader toward politically useful investigations.
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The White House said it would release a declassified memo of Trump’s July call with Volodymyr Zelensky, and that only made the scandal harder to spin away. The rough transcript and the surrounding reporting sharpened the question of whether Trump used official U.S. power to push a foreign leader toward politically useful investigations.
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The White House said it would release a declassified memo of Trump’s July call with Volodymyr Zelensky, and that only made the scandal harder to spin away. The rough transcript and the surrounding reporting sharpened the question of whether Trump used official U.S. power to push a foreign leader toward politically useful investigations.
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