'Please do not allow recent events to silence your voices.'
"While I understand that the President can remove Inspectors General for cause, I am disappointed and saddened that President Trump has decided to remove me as the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community because I did not have his 'fullest confidence,'" IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson said in a statement late Sunday.
On Saturday, Trump tore into Atkinson in a briefing with reporters at the White House, repeatedly singling out his decision to alert Congress last year to the existence of the complaint from a member of the intelligence community who believed Trump was abusing his office when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
Atkinson split with the Justice Department and then-acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire in his determination that the whistleblower complaint amounted to an"urgent concern" under the law that required him to disclose its contents to Congress. "He took a whistleblower report which turned out to be a fake report, it was fake, it was totally wrong," Trump said.
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