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• Attorney General William Barr reportedly declined a request by President Donald Trump to hold a press conference stating that his boss did not break any laws during his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 
• Sources told The Washington Post that Trump made the request in September, around the time that the White House released a summary of the call, in which Trump pressed Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
• The call was the subject of an anonymous whistleblower complaint filed in August that has since sparked the House to open up an impeachment inquiry. 
• Trump advisers told The Post that Trump has recently mentioned Barr’s refusal to make a televised statement on the matter and wishes he would have done so.

Attorney General William Barr reportedly declined a request by President Donald Trump to hold a press conference defending Trump’s incendiary call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky which spurred the House to open up an impeachment inquiry.