President Trump has accused former vice-president Joe Biden of using his office to enrich his family

President Trump was ready to host the president of Ukraine at the White House if he agreed to investigate Joe Biden, according to text messages.

The messages suggest that the Trump administration would not grant President Zelensky an Oval Office meeting unless he launched the investigations being sought by the White House into Mr Trump’s leading Democrat rival.

The messages were released by House committees as part of their impeachment inquiry into whether Mr Trump abused his office by seeking foreign help in his re-election campaign.

At the heart of the inquiry is a July 25 phone call in which Mr Trump pressed Mr Zelensky to investigate corruption claims against Mr Biden and his son Hunter, and conspiracy theories about the Mueller inquiry into Russian