Recently obtained audio calls into question accusations leveled by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., against President Donald Trump, The Washington Free Beacon is reporting.
Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, had traveled to Ukraine in early September and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
"I had heard several months ago that the new Ukrainian president was deeply concerned and confused about the pressure he was getting from the Trump administration to commence an investigation against the (Joe) Biden family," he said Monday.
"And so I went to Ukraine several weeks ago to meet with a new president to talk to him about these concerns. Indeed, once I got on the ground there, I heard about how confused the entire new Ukrainian administration was about the nature of these demands they were getting from the Trump administration to conduct this political investigation, and that they worry that the aid that was being cut off to Ukraine by the president was a consequence for their unwillingness, at the time, to investigate the Bidens."
But in an audio obtained by the Free Beacon of a Sept. 11 briefing with reporters, Murphy stressed the limited nature of his conversation with Zelenskiy. And Murphy said Zelenskiy "didn't have a clear sense of why aid was being withheld."
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