Zelenskyy denies reports of quid pro quo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied in an interview with several magazines that there had been a quid-pro-quo deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to investigate the latter’s political rival, ex-Vice-President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter. “I definitely did not speak with President Trump in such a way, like, ‘you give me this, I give you that,’ “ Mr. Zelenskyy said in an interview with Time magazine, Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde, and Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza on December 2. Mr. Trump is accused of pressuring the Ukrainian president during a July 25 call to investigate the Bidens for corruption. During the call, President Trump, a Republican, asked his Ukrainian counterpart to look into 2020 Democratic front-runner and former Vice-President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter, who had been a hired board member of a controversial Ukrainian energy company.