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Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump-Ukraine call ‘deeply troubling’

Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney said President Donald Trump’s request that Ukraine’s president investigate a political opponent was “deeply troubling” but shied away from saying whether it rose to the level of impeachment.

“My reaction was the same as I had a few days ago which is that this remains deeply troubling,” the Utah Republican said Wednesday at The Atlantic Festival in Washington. “And we'll see where it leads.”

Romney spoke at the forum shortly after the White House released a rough transcript of a single phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wherein the U.