Donald Trump Wanted Ukraine to Meddle in US Election

Washington : The whistleblower complaint published by the US House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence accuses President Donald Trump of trying to induce the Ukrainian government to take actions targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful.

“In the course of my official duties, 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 unnamed insider wrote in the complaint, dated August 12, Efe news reported on Thursday.

“This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals,” the whistleblower said, describing Trump’s personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as “a central figure in this effort.”

The complaint was addressed to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the respective chairmen of the Senate and House panels charged with overseeing intelligence.

Democrats say Donald Trump betrayed the US Constitution by urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into whether Biden while serving in the administration of Barack Obama, pressured Kiev to drop an investigation of a gas company that employed the then-vice president’s son as a director. (IANS)

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