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    So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?

    Trump’s conduct has been substantiated by his own statements.
    by Adam Serwer Oct 09, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    In August, an intelligence analyst filed a whistle-blower complaint alleging that President Donald Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to open an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.

    That allegation has since been substantiated by independent reporting, a summary of the call released by the White House, and text messages from Trump officials arguing about the ethics of using taxpayer funds for an act of political extortion. Since then, Trump has publicly reiterated his call for both Ukraine and China, an authoritarian nation seeking relief from a Trump-instigated trade war, to investigate Biden.

    You wouldn’t know any of this, however, if you simply read alleging that the person who in recent years, in part to make it so that going public isn’t the only option.)

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