Article snippet: A readout of MORE’s July 25 call to Ukraine’s president released by the White House on Wednesday offered new fuel for Democrats who had launched a formal impeachment inquiry just a day earlier. The five-page document showed that Trump encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney and the attorney general to investigate unsubstantiated allegations against former Vice President MORE. “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 call, according to the memo. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said. While Republicans sought to brush off the document as nothing new, Democrats pounced, seizing on it to argue that it bolstered the case for impeachment. They are concerned that Trump pressured a foreign government to look into a political opponent, and that he may have used U.S. military aid as leverage. “The transcript is an unambiguous, damning, and shocking abuse of the Office of the Presidency for personal political gain,” four Democratic committee chairmen said in a joint statement. Trump, in advance of the memo’s release, had argued it would show that there was nothing improper in his call, but Democrats saw it as offering support for their position and some Republicans s... Link to the full article to read more