Breaking: Transcript From 2019 Exposes More Deep State Machinations Against Trump
Margot Cleveland
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (“HPSCI”) released two transcripts Monday morning from the 2019 closed-door interviews of the then-Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson. The just-released transcripts reveal new details behind the scheming that led to the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
That first impeachment trial focused on President Trump’s July 25, 2019 telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. After the call, a supposed-whistleblower — more on that shortly — filed a complaint with the inspector general’s office on August 12, 2019, charging that Trump sought Zelensky’s assistance in investigating the Bidens to interfere in the 2020 election.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, however, concluded the Intelligence Community’s inspector general lacked jurisdiction to investigate the complaint because the call between the respective presidents did not involve the intelligence community. IG Atkinson responded by sending HPSCI a letter on September 9, 2019, alerting the House Committee to the “whistleblower” complaint and the fact that the Acting Director of National Intelligence had not forwarded the complaint to Congress, as purportedly required by statute.
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