Trump flips media reports on Ukraine call as Biden ‘disaster’

President Trump disputed media reports he pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter — and sought to turn the story against his potential 2020 electoral foe Saturday.

“Nothing was said that was in any way wrong,” Trump tweeted of his July phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Instead, Trump wrote, the “real and only story” is a Biden scandal: “the Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son, or they won’t get a very large amount of U.S. money,” he tweeted.

Biden has denied the allegation. “Not one single outlet has given any credibility to his assertion. Not one single one. And so I have no comment,” he said on the campaign trail Friday.

Trump, in response, tweeted a video in which Biden himself discussed the incident.

State Department officials have put out an alternate timeline, saying that it was Ukrainian officials who launched the conversation about a potential investigation into the activities of Biden and other Obama administration officials, The Hill reported Friday.

Trump will meet with Zelensky in New York next week during the UN General Assembly.

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