The House Intelligence Committee has released a redacted version of the whistleblower complaint that has embroiled President Trump in an impeachment inquiry and clouded his political future.
Department of Justice officials in the agency's criminal division concluded that the July call did not constitute a campaign finance violation, NBC News reported Wednesday. That division determined last week that Trump's request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not amount to a "thing of value" as the law requires, an official told NBC.
Trump also asked Zelensky for a vague "favor" related to cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and an unspecific "server." The Democratic National Committee used Crowdstrike to investigate 2016 cyberattacks. It ultimately concluded Russia was responsible for the hacks. "One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective," the author of the complaint writes.
The document outlines other concerns, including a meeting between U.S. officials and Zelensky and his advisors that took place a day after Trump's call with the Ukrainian leader, a comedian who was elected in April. Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, and U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland gave the Ukrainian government advice on how to "navigate" Trump's demands, the whistleblower writes, citing multiple readouts recounted by various U.S. officials.
Trump allies have seized on the fact that the call summary did not appear to show a direct quid pro quo related to U.S. aid to Ukraine. Multiple outlets reported that Trump told his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine before his July 25 call with Zelensky.
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