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BBC: Trump Ukraine call – What’s this story all about?

By BBC.

Published Sept. 24, 2019. Updated Sept. 24 at 9:41 am

US President Donald Trump waits for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife, Jennifer Morrison, for an Official Visit with a Official Visit with a State Dinner at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2019.

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There’s a new political controversy in the US – involving Donald Trump, foreign nationals, questions about legal and ethical behavior, and allegations against a political rival.

This feels a bit like déjà vu from 2016, with Russia, then-candidate Trump and Hillary Clinton, but it\’s a new country (Ukraine) and a new cast of characters (Joe Biden and his son Hunter).