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The timeline isn’t complicated. Responding to news reports about President Trump’s interactions with Ukraine’s president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced her party was initiating an impeachment inquiry in the House. The following day, Sept. 25, the White House released a rough transcript of Trump’s call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, which demonstrated Trump had, in fact, asked Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden. The next day, the White House released the complaint written by an intelligence community whistleblower that contextualized Trump’s requests in the broader context of how the president and his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani were trying to get Ukraine to act against Biden.

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