Summary
The White House moved to "lock down" all records of Donald Trump's phone call seeking Ukraine's interference in the 2020 U.S. election, a whistleblower's complaint released Thursday alleges, in the latest explosive episode in the rapidly unfolding impeachment drama.
The DNI, Joseph Maguire, at first refused to deliver the complaint to Congress, raising concerns from Democrats that members of Trump's administration were improperly protecting the president.
The non-verbatim record of the call did not show Trump explicitly tying aid to Zelensky probing Biden and the White House said the complaint showed Trump did "nothing improper".
As Washington digested the latest incendiary allegations, Maguire, Trump's top intelligence official, was testified before the House Intelligence Committee about why he originally withheld the complaint from Congress.
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