Trump told reporters that he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a telephone call on July 25. He described the call as "congratulatory" and said one issue they discussed was corruption in Ukraine. Trump told reporters that he raised Biden as an example of corruption.
"It was largely the fact that we don't want our people, like Vice President Biden and his son, creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine," Trump said. He spoke to reporters while he was leaving the White House for a trip to Texas.
Hunter Biden served on the board of directors of a Ukrainian gas company. The Associated Press (AP) says there is no evidence of wrongdoing by him or the former vice president.
亨特曾在乌克兰一家天然气公司担任董事。美联社称，目前没有证据表明他或前副总统拜登有不当行为。
Joe Biden is seeking to become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. If successful, he would compete against Trump for the presidency in the 2020 elections.
拜登正在寻求成为民主党的总统候选人。如果成功，他将在2020年大选中与特朗普角逐总统职位。
Biden accused Trump of making an unfounded political smear.
拜登指责特朗普对他进行毫无根据的政治抹黑。
Some Democratic lawmakers have been calling for congressional investigations into whether Trump misused his office for political gain. They accuse him of asking foreign governments to provide information that could affect the U.S. election. Such an act, they say, is an impeachable offense.
Democrats also accuse the Trump administration of refusing to give Congress important information about the president's actions.
民主党人还指责特朗普政府拒绝向国会提供有关总统此举的重要信息。
Trump's phone call with Zelenskiy is believed to be part of a whistleblower complaint. By law, the results of the government's investigation must be shared with Congress. However, the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, has refused to give Congress the information. He says the president has "privilege."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, said Sunday that Maguire must provide the information to Congress. If not, the country "will be entering a (serious) new chapter."
众议院议长南希·佩洛西周日表示，马奎尔必须向国会提供此信息。否则，美国“将会进入严重的新时期。”
The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that Trump pushed Zelenskiy eight times to investigate the Bidens. Trump wanted an investigation into whether the Ukrainian company tried to buy influence by offering a job to Hunter Biden while his father was vice president.
The report says Trump was trying to get Zelenskiy to work with Trump's lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, to investigate the Bidens.
报道称，特朗普试图让泽伦斯基与特朗普的律师鲁道夫·朱利安尼合作调查拜登一家。
Andriy Yermak is an aide to the Ukrainian president. Ukrainian media reported that he told Giuliani that any investigation in Ukraine would be done "transparently."
Hunter Biden started working for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings in April 2014. Two months earlier, Ukraine's pro-Russian president was removed from office. Joe Biden was involved in efforts to help the new pro-western government and its promise to fight corruption.
The owner of the gas company was an ally of the ousted president. Some observers thought the company was trying to gain influence with the U.S. government by offering a job to Hunter Biden.
In 2016, Joe Biden pushed the Ukrainian government to remove its prosecutor general. The prosecutor was accused by many in Ukraine and in the West of being easy on corruption.
Trump says the Ukrainian official was investigating the Bidens. There is no evidence of this, however.
特朗普表示，这位乌克兰官员当时正在调查拜登一家。然而，没有任何证据证明这一点。
Trump told reporters that he said "nothing wrong" in the call to Zelenskiy.
特朗普告诉记者，他在跟泽伦斯基的通话内容“从未逾矩”。
Trump told reporters he will look into releasing details or a transcript of the call. He added that foreign leaders should feel free to speak honestly with an American president without fear those comments could be made public.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham admitted there can be "10 to 20 people" listening in on such calls.
白宫新闻秘书史蒂芬妮·格里舍姆承认可能会有10到20人在监听这类通话。
The whistleblower complaint came after several events, not just the July 25 call between Trump and Zelenskiy. This information comes from two people who know the details of the complaint. The AP agreed to their request not to use their names in this report.
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