The Washington Capitol was booming at the end of this week after an unidentified member of the espionage services revealed an alleged telephone duress by Donald Trump last July to the current president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, to initiate an investigation into Joe Biden's son, with the ultimate goal of damaging the former vice president's campaign for the 2020 elections.

To understand why Trump would have pressured Zelenski, one must go back to the years of the presidency of Barack Obama, when then Vice President Joe Biden would have threatened by telephone the then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, with withdrawing a high sum of money as Loans to the former Soviet Republic if he did not remove the then chief prosecutor, Victor Shokin, who was investigating a gas company, whose organizational chart was Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden.

During the week, Donald Trump Creates More Confusion About Joe Biden "perfectly valid and routine." The president left him there. But yesterday, Sunday, before leaving the White House to travel to Ohio and Texas, Trump acknowledged talking about Biden with Zelenski. “The conversation I had was congratulatory, mainly in regards to corruption,” the president recalled, and then continue to report that in that area it was when he mentioned Biden, saying that “we don't want to have people like Vice President Biden and his son creating corruption to the one already existing in Ukraine. ” What Trump never recognized yesterday was that he had pressured Zelenski to initiate an investigation.

Since this new scandal broke out with The Wall Street Journal, the president has insisted that Joe Biden should be investigated. “It is a real misfortune that he threatened not to donate billions to a foreign country if he did not retire before a prosecutor. Someone should investigate it, ”Trump said in an annoyed tone last Friday at the Oval Office, where he talked to reporters after receiving Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia. "That they will not do," Trump added, providing as a reason that "it is a Democrat."

The other main protagonist of this new mess is Trump's obscure lawyer, the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani . After the Journal revealed the information, in which he quoted people familiar with the matter who claimed that in the July 25 telephone conversation, Trump came to ask Zelenski up to eight times to work with his personal lawyer (Giuliani) to investigate to Hunter Biden.

After denying having done so, Giuliani came to admit Thursday night in an interview with CNN that he asked the current Ukrainian government to investigate Biden. "Of course I did it!", Said the lawyer annoyed after giving many vague explanations about how he had come to know about this supposed Ukrainian plot.

It is known that the president's lawyer met in June in Paris with an official of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and in August in Madrid with an adviser to Zelenski, Andriy Yermak. But one thing is Giuliani trying to protect the interests of his client, as he said, and quite another that the US Administration used official channels to get a foreign country to initiate an investigation that affects a political rival.