‘White House hid Trump-Zelensky talk’
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The White House scrambled to “lock down” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, an incendiary whistleblower complaint released Thursday alleged, in the latest episode of an intensifying impeachment drama.
The complaint caps a stunning week of revelations that have put Trump’s presidency in jeopardy, with his administration, the Justice Department and State Department all engulfed in the mushrooming scandal. It alleges that White House
- his nessed the president abuse
July call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
The alleged misconduct centers on Trump urging Zelensky to investigate the US leader’s political
complaint and triggering a congressional impeachment probe.
The whistleblower, who says he spoke to at least six US government officials, concluded that Trump
to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election.” “I learned from multiple US down’ all records of the phone
for-word transcript of the call that was produced,” he wrote.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a chorus of Democratic condemnation of Trump and those alleged to have hidden the call’s full transcript on a limited-access electronics record system.
“This is a cover up,” she told reporters. Trump has “betrayed his oath of office, our national security, and the integrity of our elections,” Pelosi said.
impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. As of Thursday, a majority of the 435-seat House of Representatives, 218 Democrats and one independent, said they support the probe.
In private remarks to staff at the US mission to the United Nations, Trump attacked the intel
United States President Donald Trump (center) poses with with Sheriffs after receiving an award from them at the White House in Washington, D.C. The US President is facing more impeachment proceedings due to alleged soliciting of foreign help to probe a would-be opponent’s son.
On the call, Trump said he was enlisting US Attorney General Bill Barr and personal lawyer Rudy
Trump has said he exerted “no pressure” on Kiev, a claim echoed by Zelensky.
But critics maintain that the president held up $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, to be released only if it investigated the Bidens.
At a fundraiser in California on Thursday, Biden said Trump would “like to get foreign help to win elections.” Biden added there’s not been “one shred of evidence” showing wrongdoing by his family.