BREAKING: A redacted, declassified version of the whistleblower complaint at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump was made public on Thursday morning
A redacted, declassified version of the whistleblower complaint at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump was made public on Thursday, revealing the anonymous intelligence officer reported his belief that Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election.”
A copy of the complaint, which was made by an intelligence officer alarmed by President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, can be read here. Additionally, the complaint sheds new light on efforts that the administration took to further squeeze Zelensky’s government on Trump’s requests. Following the July call, two top U.S. diplomats—special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker and E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland—communicated with Ukrainian officials about how to “navigate” Trump’s demands, it says.
The complaint was given to Maguire, just weeks into his tenure as acting intelligence chief, and he declined to issue a report on it to Congress. But Atkinson alerted the House Intelligence Committee of the complaint’s existence, and it subpoenaed Maguire for it. The call also turbocharged calls for impeachment. While many Democrats have been calling for impeachment proceedings against Trump ever since the release of the Mueller Report, the whistleblower complaint proved to be the tipping point for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who accused Trump of a “betrayal” of his oath of office in announcing a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
Trump has admitted both to initially withholding aid and urging the Ukrainian president to look into Hunter Biden, who was an adviser to a Ukrainian firm, he has insisted there was no wrongdoing and no “quid pro quo.” House Republicans were apparently concerned enough to join Democrats late Wednesday in voting 421-0 for the passage of a non-binding resolution demanding that the Trump administration release the whistleblower complaint.
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