Showing posts with label WHISTLE-BLOWER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WHISTLE-BLOWER. Show all posts

October 6, 2019



A Second Whistle-Blower Comes Forward Over Trump and Ukraine




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September 27, 2019








Whistleblower, working in stealth, almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion

The whistleblower has by some measures managed to exceed what former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III accomplished in two years of investigating President Trump: producing a file so concerning and factually sound that it has almost single-handedly set in motion the gears of impeachment.
Clockwise from top left: President Trump, Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko, Attorney General William P. Barr, Rudolph W. Giuliani. (Photos by The Post, Reuters, AFP/Getty Images)

Effort to shield call with Ukrainian leader was part of broader secrecy effort

While President Trump approved the release of the rough transcript to combat the whistleblower’s allegations, he has once again charged that people with access to his calls are conspiring against him.

In gambit for Trump, Giuliani engaged parade of Ukrainian prosecutors

The president’s personal attorney met five prosecutors on two continents in quest to press cases damaging to Trump’s rivals.

‘Almost a spy:’ Trump’s remarks about whistleblower at U.N. event

At a closed-door event for staff and families of the U.S. mission, the president suggested that the person’s actions were akin to being a spy or committing treason.