Speaking to reporters about the release of the whistleblower complaint, Donald Trump repeated his claim that his phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was ‘perfect’. The US president noted that Zelenskiy yesterday denied he had been pressured during the call to open an investigation into Joe Biden. Trump called the Democrats’ investigation a ‘disgrace’ and suggested there should be a legal mechanism to quash the probe: ‘There should be a way of stopping it, maybe legally through the courts’