Whistleblower Complaint Released

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 24: U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking at the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly on September 24, 2019 in New York City. World leaders are gathered for the 74th session of the UN amid a warning by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his address yesterday of the looming risk of a world splitting between the two largest economies - the U.S. and China. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The whistleblower complaint has been declassified and released to the public. Read the full redacted complaint here.

The report points to a unified effort, some will say a conspiracy, to hide the contents of calls. It also shows a potential case for quid pro quo. Here are some of the passages that stand out as especially significant:

The complaint,citing multiple US officials, alleges that White House lawyers have been stuffing politically troubling records of presidential calls into highly classified storage to hide them from scrutiny throughout Trump’s presidency. This just got much bigger.
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) September 26, 2019

Woah. White House officials told the WB “this was ‘not the first time’ under this admin that a presidential transcript was placed into this code-word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive—rather than national security sensitive—information.” pic.twitter.com/ShqOtn6W3l
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 26, 2019

According to the whistleblower complaint the call/meeting between POTUS and Zelenskyy was in and of itself part of a quid pro quo – ie, no time w POTUS unless you “play ball” on the investigations sought by Giuliani & others pic.twitter.com/uhNVWtcoKo
— Maria Spinella (@mariaspinella) September 26, 2019

"There is direct evidence in this document of quid pro quo." — @matthewamiller pic.twitter.com/o3wVhpEkWo
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 26, 2019

CNN writes:

The whistleblower says he or she learned from US officials that President Trump instructed Vice President Mike Pence to cancel planned travel to Ukraine to attend President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration in May.
Instead he sent Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to lead the delegation, according to the declassified complaint.
The whistleblower also said he or she learned from the US officials that Trump did not want to meet himself with Zelensky until Trump saw how Zelensky “chose to act” in office, the complaint says.

Page 7: "Starting in mid-May, I heard from multiple U.S. officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Giuliani's circumvention of national security decisionmaking processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth." https://t.co/7zRQEXM5ZL
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 26, 2019