{"id":8182,"date":"2019-09-26T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:10:42","slug":"whistleblower-complaint-against-president-donald-trump-regarding-abuse-of-power-in-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/whistleblower-complaint-against-president-donald-trump-regarding-abuse-of-power-in-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Complaint Against President Donald Trump Regarding Abuse of Power in 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On September 26, 2019, the House Intelligence Committee released the following press release. The documents follow below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the declassified whistleblower complaint. [See complaint and IG letter below]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the following statement:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cThe Committee this morning will be releasing the declassified whistleblower complaint that it received late last night from the ODNI. It is a travesty that it was held up this long.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cThis complaint should never have been withheld from Congress. It exposed serious wrongdoing, and was found both urgent and credible by the Inspector General.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cThis complaint is a roadmap for our investigation, and provides significant information for the Committee to follow up on with other witnesses and documents. And it is corroborated by the call record released yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cI want to thank the whistleblower for having the courage to come forward, despite the reprisals they have already faced from the president and his acolytes. We will do everything in our power to protect this whistleblower, and every whistleblower, who comes forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cThe public has a right to see the complaint and what it reveals.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whistleblower Complaint<\/a> [10 Pages, 4.3MB]<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocuments2.theblackvault.com%2Fdocuments%2F20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: 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<\/a><\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background On September 26, 2019, the House Intelligence Committee released the following press release. The documents follow below: Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the declassified whistleblower complaint. [See complaint and IG letter below] Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the following statement: \u201cThe Committee this morning will be releasing the declassified whistleblower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,1344,950,1345,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-8182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-government","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-house-intelligence-committee","10":"tag-trump","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-whistleblower"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/6-9-2020-8-02-12-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}