Trump directly asked the Ukraine president to investigate Biden. Since Biden is a presidential candidate, just asking this is illegal under campaign law, and is an impeachable offense. And this transcript is what Trump released! The actual transcript is probably even more damaging.
Crowdstrike is a US security company that uncovered Russian Fancy Bear malware aimed at DNC and Ukraine. Trump wanted Crowdstrike investigated. because he mistakenly thought Crowdstrike servers were in Ukraine. They aren’t. Trump, as always, has no command of the facts. However, his intent is clear. Investigate the enemy of Putin. Again, more felonies.
Quoting Trump on the phone call to the Ukraine president:
I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it.
Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great.
The other thing, There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…
Crowdstrike blog, 2016 on Fancy Bear:
In June CrowdStrike identified and attributed a series of targeted intrusions at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and other political organizations that utilized a well known implant commonly called X-Agent. X-Agent is a cross platform remote access toolkit, variants have been identified for various Windows operating systems, Apple’s iOS, and likely the MacOS. Also known as Sofacy, X-Agent has been tracked by the security community for almost a decade, CrowdStrike associates the use of X-Agent with an actor we call FANCY BEAR.
This actor to date is the exclusive operator of the malware, and has continuously developed the platform for ongoing operations which CrowdStrike assesses is likely tied to Russian Military Intelligence (GRU). The source code to this malware has not been observed in the public domain and appears to have been developed uniquely by FANCY BEAR.