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Trump weighs in ...

Another Fake News story out there - It never ends! Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem!

10:47 AM - Sep 19, 2019

....Knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially "heavily populated" call. I would only do what is right anyway, and only do good for the USA!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174696521310363649

Presidential Harassment!
10:51 AM - Sep 19, 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174697450948497408

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 So Adam Schiff is screaming for the DNI to release a whistleblower report to his committee (they must be running behind on their smear schedule) and is suing as a result, and now we're told that the whistleblower has a former CIA officer as an attorney. On DU the involvement of the former CIA officer is viewed as imparting official "credibility".

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The whistleblower is being represented by Andrew P. Bakaj, a former CIA officer and managing partner at the Compass Ross Legal Group, a national security law firm.

Bakaj, who formerly worked as a lawyer in the CIA Office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on his client or the Post’s story. Others familiar with the whistleblower’s complaint, however, confirmed its broad outlines and that it involves the president’s communications.

According to Schiff, Maguire intervened to block the documents from being transmitted to lawmakers, diverting the complaint to the Justice Department and telling the committee that would refuse to share it because it involved someone outside the intelligence community and might involve matters of confidentiality and privilege....

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/trump-denies-comment-foreign-leader-whistleblower-1502945