IMPEACHMENT/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “‘In the course of my duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.’ Thus began an explosive criminal complaint drafted by an American intelligence officer and released by the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday [9-26-19]. At the center of the whistle-blower’s complaint is a July call between Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Mr. Trump brought up American aid to that country — without explicitly mentioning that he had just frozen a military aid package of hundreds of millions of dollars — and then pressed the Ukrainian leader to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The whistle-blower, who did not listen directly to the call, also said that in an attempt to ‘lock down’ all records of the call, White House lawyers told officials to move the transcript into a separate system reserved for classified information that is especially sensitive.”
–Nicholas Fandos, “Trump Impeachment Inquiry Updates: The Complaint, the Testimony, the Reaction,” The New York Times online, September 26, 2019