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The Trump administration is reportedly planning to release a document that shows the intelligence community inspector general found evidence that the whistleblower at the center of allegations against President Trump had “political bias” in favor of a “rival candidate” of Trump.
A senior administration official told Fox News late Tuesday night that the document would be released, as would the complaint against Trump from the whistleblower himself. The official did not say which “rival candidate” the watchdog found, toward whom the whistleblower was allegedly biased.
The news comes as the White House prepares to release the transcript of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The whistleblower alleges that in the phone call, Trump urged Zelensky a number of times to work with Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, to investigate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his ties to a Ukrainian-owned energy company.
The official predicted that upon the release of the transcript, which is expected Wednesday, there would be a “few words” that would raise eyebrows, but nothing as damning for Trump as Democrats have discussed.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump Tuesday before the transcript was released. Trump has called the allegations and the subsequent inquiry by Democrats a “witch hunt” and denied any wrongdoing.
The whistleblower who filed the complaint will reportedly be permitted to speak to investigators in Congress and the White House is working to release the actual complaint that was filed to the watchdog in addition to the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky conversation.
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