Article snippet: MORE's ties to Ukraine during his time as vice president. "It doesn't matter what I discussed, but I'll tell you this, somebody ought to look into Joe Biden's statement," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with the Australian prime minister. The president added that his conversations with foreign leaders are "always appropriate." Trump said he did not know who the whistleblower is but derided the complaint as "partisan" and "ridiculous" and asserted that Biden is getting a pass because he's a Democrat. “The fake news doesn’t look into things like that," he said. "It’s a disgrace.” "Keep asking questions and build it up as big as possible so you can have a bigger downfall," he added. The whistleblower complaint has been the subject of intense interest in recent days after The Washington Post first reported on Wednesday that it involved Trump making a "promise" to a foreign leader. The Post and The New York Times later reported that the incident in question involved Ukraine. Further driving scrutiny about the complaint is the administration's decision to release military aid to Ukraine after a delay that had frustrated lawmakers in both parties. The inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, declined to discuss the details of the whistleblower complaint with members of the House Intelligence Committee during a closed door meeting on Thursday. The specifics of the complaint are mostly unknown. But Trump's handling ... Link to the full article to read more