Trump asked Ukraine's president for a “favor” involving political investigations

Date: 2019-07-25
Entry type: foreign-policy-pressure
Current status: The official call memorandum documents the request; it was not a verbatim transcript.
Last reviewed: 2026-09-03

Entities and roles

July 2019 Trump-Zelenskyy calldocumented presidential call
Donald J. Trumppresident making the request

Claims and evidence

factdocumented
The White House call memorandum records Trump asking President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “do us a favor” and raising CrowdStrike and the Bidens after Zelenskyy discussed buying United States weapons.
- The White House: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation: President Trump and President ZelenskyyPages 2–4; memorandum caution on page 1