Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, appeared at a contentious House committee hearing in which Democrats blasted him for initially failing to disclose the whistleblower’s nine-page complaint.
Maguire’s testimony followed the release Wednesday of a White House account of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is at the center of the whistleblower’s complaint.During the 30-minute call, Trump repeatedly urged Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Trump couched it as a “favor” after Zelensky asked for U.S. weapons to help fight Russian-backed separatists in a long-simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the committee, dismissed the allegations as insignificant. “I want to congratulate the Democrats on the roll-out of an information warfare operation against the president,” he said. He said he consulted with White House lawyers to determine if executive privilege applied. As the White House weighed that issue, he sought legal advice from the Justice Department about whether he was required to share it with Congress.
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