Source: time.com - Thursday, September 26, 2019
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of the whistleblower complaint that alleges President Donald Trump sought foreign interference in the 2020 election on a July phone call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. “I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” wrote the unidentified officer who submitted the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community. “This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.” The complaint also claims that the Trump Administration tried to conceal the contents of the phone call, in which Trump requested Zelensky look into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine. “The transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective,” the whistleblower wrote. News of the allegations rippled across Washington even before the report was made public, culminating in
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On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of the whistleblower complaint that alleges President Donald Trump sought foreign interference in the 2020 election on a July phone call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. “I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” wrote the unidentified officer who submitted the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community. “This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.” The complaint also claims that the Trump Administration tried to conceal the contents of the phone call, in which Trump requested Zelensky look into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine. “The transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective,” the whistleblower wrote. News of the allegations rippled across Washington even before the report was made public, culminating in
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