Much of the remainder concerns Giuliani's unusual insertion into foreign policy regarding Ukraine, given his status as a private citizen, and various personnel and policy changes that appear to have been motivated at least in part by pressure from Trump. The path the complaint has taken thus far has itself been thorny. Originally filed in August to the inspector general for US intelligence agencies, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel determined that it should not make its way to Congress, arguing that because it applied to Trump it was outside of the inspector general's purview.
The Justice Department's criminal division then dismissed the complaint, reportedly without opening a formal investigation. As the complaint's existence became known in late September, Congress pushed for the document to be shared. Trump's acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, declined.
In a congressional hearing Thursday morning, Maguire cited executive privilege as the reason he withheld the report. The House intelligence committee head, Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, pushed back on Maguire's deference to the White House and the Justice Department, given that the report implicates both directly.
Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in the U. In the complaint, the whistleblower wrote, "I have received information from multiple U. 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 U. This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals. The individual, who wasn't a direct witness to most of what's laid out in the complaint said that over "half a dozen U.
Download PDF version of the memo. The whistleblower pointed to the president's July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and to efforts by the White House to shut down access to the call afterward. There were, according to the complainant, about a dozen White House officials listening to the call. Afterward, the whistleblower describes a sense from some in the White House that the president had crossed the line into abusing his office. Here's what the complaint says:. The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call.
They told me that there was already a 'discussion ongoing' with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.
A summary of the call was released by the Justice Department Thursday. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. File information. Structured data. Captions English Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Note : This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.
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