'I will not divulge privileged conversations with the president,' testified Joseph Maguire, acting intelligence director, when asked if he ever spoke to President Trump about the Ukraine whistleblower complaint
WASHINGTON - A whistleblower report released on Thursday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election for his own political benefit, but that the White House also tried to “lock down” evidence about that conduct.
Democrats have accused Trump of soliciting a foreign power to smear a domestic political rival. The Ukraine controversy follows U.S. intelligence conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election with a campaign of hacking and propaganda to boost Trump’s candidacy. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times reported that Trump told staff from the U.S. mission to the United Nations he wanted to know who provided information to the whistleblower.
The whistleblower complaint concerns a July 25 telephone call in which Trump pressed Zelenskiy to investigate Biden and his son Hunter, who had worked for a company drilling for gas in Ukraine. The complaint stated that multiple U.S. officials said they were “deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Giuliani’s circumvention of national security decision-making processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between Kiev and the president.”At the hearing, despite comments by Trump and other Republicans, Maguire said there was no reason to believe the whistleblower was disloyal to the United States or a political hack.
Maguire testified about the document after refusing for weeks to share it with Congress. Democrats said federal law required that the report be sent to lawmakers. “I am not familiar with any prior instances where a whistleblower complaint touched on such complicated and sensitive issues including executive privilege,” Maguire said.
“I want to congratulate the Democrats on their latest information warfare effort against the president,” Nunes said sarcastically.
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