According to the complaint, White House officials tried to lock down records of the phone call with Ukraine. Because they knew it was bad and wrong. |
And that the instruction to lock down all aid to Ukraine came directly from the President himself. And no one knew the policy rationale.
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Here's the letter from the IG to the Acting DNI that was attached to the complaint.
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190826_-_icig_letter_to_acting_dni_unclass.pdf "Complainant has subject matter expertise related to much of the material." |
Fox News is saying
The transcript is innocuous The whistleblower does not have first hand knowledge He is likely a partisan The President’s actions are not subject to oversight by the DNI IG |
They know he’s watching and they don’t want him to stroke out. |
And, what exactly is not true about what they are saying? |
Some people don’t understand where politics stop and governance starts. To them it’s just all a team sport. |
The complaint notes White House lawyers were "already in discussion" about "how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain."
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1177205863314087936?s=20 And after the ICIG and Acting DNI referred this to the DOJ as a criminal referral, Barr shut it down. Barr is toast. |
Barr "shut it down?" How do you know this? |
This perfectly describes that Democrats today. |
DOJ told McGuire not to send it to Congress. |
“At the end of August, when two top intelligence officials asked a Justice Department lawyer whether a whistle-blower’s complaint should be forwarded to Congress, they were told no, Attorney General William P. Barr and his department could handle the criminal referral against the president of the United States. About four weeks later, the department rendered its judgment: President Trump had not violated campaign finance laws when he urged Ukraine’s president to work with Mr. Barr to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/william-barr-trump-ukraine.html |
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462971-doj-declined-to-investigate-trump-ukraine-call |
LOL! Point made. |
FTFY. |