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![]() ![]() "This complaint should never have been withheld from Congress. Shortly before the hearing, the intelligence committee's chairman, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, announced that it had received the declassified complaint and released it to the public. A federal law required that the report be sent to lawmakers after an inspector general determined that it was urgent and credible. ![]() Trump has denied wrongdoing and accused Democrats of trying to destroy him politically. ![]() Saying that more than six White House officials had made contact about Trump's communication with Ukraine, the report cited concerns that efforts to put pressure on Ukraine "pose risks to US national security," undermining efforts "to deter and counter foreign interference in US elections." Moments after the whistleblower report was made public, the committee began a hearing at which acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, was set to testify about the document after refusing for weeks to share the report with Congress. Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, in coordination with US Attorney General William Barr and Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to a summary of a July telephone call released by the Trump administration on Wednesday. ![]()
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