U.S. President Donald Trump again denied on Friday that he did anything wrong during a mysterious phone call with an as-yet unidentified foreign leader after a whistleblower in the intelligence services sounded the alarm.
The Washington Post reported that the call was to Ukraine and that Mr. Trump had made a “promise” of some kind.
“There was nothing said wrong, it was pitch perfect!” Mr. Trump tweeted, without detailing whom he had spoken to or what was said.
He said his Democratic opponents and the media “think I may have had a ‘dicey’ conversation with a certain foreign leader” but this was only based on what he called “a ‘highly partisan’ whistleblowers statement.”
However, a political storm is rapidly brewing over the refusal by Mr. Trump’s Director of National Intelligence to give Congress the whistleblower’s report.
The allegations could refer to a call known to have been made in July between Mr. Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian who was elected in May.
Mr. Trump allegedly sought to pressure the Ukrainians to pursue corruption charges against the son of his main Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential election Joe Biden.
Congressional legislators were also concerned that the Trump administration had been holding back military aid to Ukraine at the time.
