The political career of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president with whom President Donald Trump had a now-notorious conversation at the center of the Democratic impeachment drumbeat, began with a role on television as an anti-corruption crusader. In that and several other ways, Zelensky’s rise mirrors that of Trump in the United States..
The Presidency Of Ukraine’s Head Of State Volodymyr Zelensky Mirrors Trump In Some Pretty Striking Ways
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