Why Trump asked Ukraines president to look into CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity company that recently went public

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President Donald Trump asked Ukraines leader to look into the U.S. company that assisted the Democratic National Committee in investigating a 2016 hack, a newly released White House summary of a July 25 phone call shows. The U.S. Department of Justice ultimately charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking the servers to interfere with the presidential election. Trump has previously suggested that the DNC should have turned over the email servers to the FBI instead of having CrowdStrike investigate, implying that the lack of cooperation should cast doubt on findings that the Russians helped him win the election. Trump previously told AP News that he "heard" that CrowdStrike was "owned by a very rich Ukranian," although the companys IPO filing says that the biggest shareholders are American venture capital backers including Warburg Pincus, Accel, and Alphabets CapitalG "With regards to our investigation of the DNC hack in 2016, we provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI," a CrowdStrike spokesperson said in a statement. In the call, Trump asks Zelenksy to look into former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 presidential candidate, and his son Hunter.

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