Posted on 09/21/2019 1:56:13 PM PDT by ransomnote
The whistleblower who filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general did not have direct knowledge of the communications between President Trump and the foreign leader in question.
The conversation was reportedly a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It is alleged that Trump urged Zelensky multiple times to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his ties to an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch. Giuliani has previously urged a top official in Ukraine to look into the ties.
An official who has been briefed on the matter, however, told CNN that the whistleblower “didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications.” The official said that the concerns and subsequent complaint came in part from the whistleblower “learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work.”
Those details have reportedly played a role in the administration's determining that the complaint, lodged in August, didn’t fall under the reporting standards for intelligence whistleblower law.
Although many details are still unclear, the communications in question reportedly involved a “promise,” and House Democrats, as well as the elder Biden, are pushing to have the complaint and a transcript of the call between Trump and Zelensky released.
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson received the initial complaint and forwarded it to acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, who has so far refused to pass it along to Congress.
The root of the proposed investigation into Hunter Biden stems from his being a 2014 board member for the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings. While he was still vice president, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not fire its top prosecutor, who was accused of corruption and was investigating the oligarch who owned Burisma Holdings. That raised concerns of a potential conflict of interest, which could be damaging to Biden’s presidential campaign.
At the time of the prosecutor’s departure, Hunter Biden was being paid $50,000 per month for his work with the energy company. Hunter Biden left Burisma’s board earlier this year.
Both Trump and Biden have denied any wrongdoing, with Trump describing his phone call to Zelensky as “perfectly fine" and Biden saying he has never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings.
Biden saying he has never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings.
Remember, activist Dems are proven liars. Will say anything to get attention only to look like the fools they are.
I hate to say it but the US intelligence community has been operating rogue for decades and can no longer be trusted by Trump. He needs to be able to communicate without their spying and undermining of a legitimately elected president. They believe they set policy and run the country.
How can Trump or any president not question anything they put in front of him? They failed throughout the 90’s, the 00’s and continue to fail getting thousands of Americans killed in the process on 911 and in the cluster#%^> they pulled in Iraq with their WMD fiasco. Now they are openly interfering in national elections in violation of US Code, again with no consequences. At some point Trump has to do a mass termination of these traitors. JFK and Ike knew what was coming from these goons.
I;m reminded of The Beverly Hillbillies when Jethro told Miss Jane he knew “all about those Hollywood parties”. When Jane asked him how he knew he replied “My mom’s first cousin who lived in the holler knew a woman who visited California, went to have her hair done and the hairdresser had a second cousin who lived next to a woman ;who knew all about those Hollywood parties”. The Hillbillies had better sources than our so-called “press”.
Thanks ransomnote.
At this point I would be shocked to find out that anything reported about Trump EVER turns out to be true.
Fixed!
Bottom line some one knew something
I’m starting to think the “whistle blower” is a Trump Campaign Operative.
The whole debacle just confirms what everyone already knows about the media-left.
Even those on the left.
And there are those on the left who are going to be too embarrassed to vote!
It’s hard to imagine things getting very much better...
I think it’s really looking like this was a plant to locate a leaker.....and to bring Biden’s Ukraine corruption to the forefront.
Another Fake News Story bites the dust!
It also sounds like the hillbillies have better sources than US intelligence agencies. In the business world most of them would have been on thin ice in the 90’s and all would have been fired after 911 and Iraq.
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