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Vera Bergengruen
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The declassified, 9-page whistleblower report is out:

"I have received information... that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election." intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
"The President's personal lawyer, Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well," the whistleblower report says intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
It wasn't just the content of Trump's call with Zelensky but what happened afterwards to cover it up: "White House officials told me that they were "directed" by WH lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which (they) are usually stored..." /1
Instead, the transcript of the Trump/Zelensky call was loaded into a separate system usually "used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature." /2
One White House official described it as "an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective." /3 intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Pretty significant nugget hidden in appendix: WH officials say "this was "not the first time"' under Trump that a presidential transcript was put into higher-level system "solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive - rather than national security sensitive - info"
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Anything else magats?

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Whistleblower complaint

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Whistleblower complaint:

"I have received information... that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."

intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
"This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals," the whistleblower writes, naming Giuliani and AG Barr

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Shane Harris
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The whistleblower complaint has been released. Unclassified version. intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
The WB says he/she based the complaint on information and conversations provided by "more than half a dozen U.S. officials."
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@RiegerReport
New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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