The complaint also questioned how records of a Trump-Zelenskyy call were managed and highlighted the involvement of Trump’s then-personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in US-Ukraine relations.
“I have received information from multiple US Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election,” the whistleblower was quoted by CBS News as saying.
“This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals,” the whistleblower wrote.
Gabbard claimed in a post on X that officials within the intelligence community fabricated a misleading narrative, which Congress then used to override the will of voters and impeach President Donald Trump in 2019.
She also contended that the inspector general’s review of the whistleblower complaint was based on second-hand information.
However, the documents do not offer any direct proof of criminal misconduct.
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