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Energy Secretary Rick Perry is preparing for his exit from the Trump Cabinet with his name squarely in the middle of the Ukrainian controversy, raising the prospect that a once largely clean tenure could be clouded at the very end.

The controversy stems from a whistleblower’s recent allegations that President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this year to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his family, and that the White House attempted to cover up the conversation.

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