It’s not to get dirt on political opponents. That’s for sure. Obvious abuse of power.
You do understand that the phone call in question was done 16 months before Biden even declared his run for president? Didn't know that huh?
The phone call happened on July 25, 2019, three months after Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine.
That would mean, Biden "declared" his run for President in November 2020. So, how are you in a position to know?
Actually I was mistaken.
April 21, 2019 – New Ukrainian President elected on anti-corruption agenda
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is elected president of Ukraine, to succeed Petro Poroshenko. He ran on a
“zero tolerance” anti-corruption agenda.
April 21, 2019 – First Trump-Zelenskyy Phone Call
President Trump calls to congratulate him, their first known direct communication. Trump
urged Mr. Zelenskyy to pursue investigations of ‘corruption.'” According to the
New York Times, Trump also urged Zelenskyy to coordinate with Giuliani; according to the
Wall Street Journal, Giuliani’s name was not mentioned on the call.
April 25, 2019 – Joe Biden formally announces campaign for President.
April 25, 2019 – President Trump tells
Fox News’s Sean Hannity that Attorney General Bill Barr is considering allegations that Ukrainians sought to help Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign by revealing damaging information about Paul Manafort. “I would imagine [Barr] would want to see this. … I would certainly defer to the attorney general, and we’ll see what he says about it,” Trump said. “He calls ’em straight” (
transcript).
Fox News reports that “Trump echoed his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who wrote on Twitter on Wednesday [April 24]: `Keep your eye on Ukraine.’”