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Trump may or may not have corruptly "promised" something to coerce Ukraine into taking action: we don't have the details. But, subjective assessments from anonymous "intelligence officials" have a horrible recent track record, and Dems obliterated their credibility via Russiagate
Also, whether you like it or not (I don't), the president has hugely broad latitude in the conduct of foreign affairs. So even if Trump did "promise" something, it's far from established that it would be within the purview of the Intelligence Community to "whistleblow" about
The mechanism for imposing accountability in the event of untoward (but not necessarily illegal) presidential diplomatic conduct would be through the electoral process -- not through opaque machinations of the security state, which has been the trend since Trump took office
