Ukraine is at the center of a complaint made by a whistleblowing intelligence officer who filed the report after learning of a promise President Trump made to a foreign leader, The Washington Post reports.
had suggested that Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine to pressure it to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who is on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
The acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, has been withholding the whistleblower complaint from House intelligence committees.Maguire's decision infuriated House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who has demanded Maguire's testimony and a copy of the complaint.
A whistleblower complaint by an intelligence official about a private presidential phone call would be an extraordinary development, likely without precedent in U.S. history.about the whistleblower complaint involving communication with a foreign leader, calling them “fake news.” He said that when he speaks on the phone to foreign leaders there may be others from the U.S. listening in and that he would never say anything “inappropriate” to a foreign leader on such a call.
"This involves an allegation of serious wrongdoing, something that the inspector general felt needed to be presented to Congress," Schiff told Rachel Maddow Thursday night.
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