Former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday walked back his opposition to Congress impeaching President Donald Trump following the transcript release of Trump's phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
Comey tweeted:
"Some media are quoting me from last week about my hope that America will remove Donald Trump by an election, not Impeachment. But we may now be at the point where members of the House and Senate can't uphold their own oaths to support and defend the Constitution without acting."
The White House on Wednesday released a five-page partial transcript of a call between Trump and Zelensky, showing Trump asked the Ukrainian leader to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and his attorney general to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
"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," Trump told Zelensky in the July 25 call.
"Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. . . . It sounds horrible to me," Trump added.
Zelensky then assured Trump he would be installing his own prosecutor to "look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue."
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