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    Russia's invasion puts a new light on Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign

    With Russia's brutal invasion and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being hailed as a hero, Trump's infamous 2019 call to Zelenskyy is put into a very different light.
    by Domenico Montanaro Mar 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 26.

    A "perfect" call, it was not.

    Then-President Donald Trump was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Ukraine's defense as he was asking its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to investigate Trump's potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden.

    That 2019 call got Trump impeached. But the Senate acquitted him, and he dismissed the controversy as a politically motivated hit job — and his base went along.

    Now, with Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and Zelenskyy being hailed around the world as a hero for his

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