President Trump holds a press conference in the wake of impeachment inquiry

The Trump administration on Wednesday released the much-anticipated summary of President Trump’s phone call in July with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the conversation that was part of the whistleblower complaint at the center of House Democrats’ new impeachment inquiry.

Mr. Trump, who was in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, spent the day arguing the summary vindicated him from Democratic claims that he had pressured a foreign leader to interfere in domestic politics.

“I didn’t threaten anybody,” Mr. Trump said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

Read the transcript of the call here.

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The summary, however, shows Mr. Trump did urge the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company.

The document is a summary of the call and not a verbatim transcript. A footnote says it is the record of the notes and recollections of National Security Council staff and Situation Room officers “assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form.”

“I think you read everything. I think you read text,” the Ukrainian leader said, when asked whether he felt pressured to investigate the Bidens. “I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be involved [in the] democratic, open elections of USA. We had, I think, good phone call. It was normal.”

According to the memo, Zelensky said Ukraine was “almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes,” referring to powerful anti-tank missiles. Mr. Trump responded he “would like you to do us a favor though,” telling Zelensky he would like to find out what happened with “this whole situation with Ukraine,” mentioning Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company which helped investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump later mentioned “the other thing,” saying “there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son.” Zelensky pledged that a new prosecutor would look into the case, and asked for additional information. Mr. Trump told Zelensky he would have Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr call. The Justice Department, which released the memo, said Wednesday that Barr never discussed anything related to Ukraine with Giuliani.

On Wednesday, Democrats said the memo was worse than they anticipated, with Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saying it was reminiscent of a “classic mafia-like shakedown.” But Mr. Trump claimed the document vindicated him, saying the memo showed no explicit quid pro quo with Ukraine.