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The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning released a redacted version of the whistleblower complaint filed last month against President Donald Trump.
The complaint — which the administration initially withheld from Congress — was declassified with several redactions.
Lawmakers began reviewing a classified version of the complaint Wednesday evening ahead of testimony Thursday morning by acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. House Democrats who have read the document say it's "deeply disturbing."
The whistleblower's identity has not been made public.
“In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple US Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election,” the unidentified whistleblower wrote in the Aug. 12 complaint. “This inference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.”
President Trump calls impeachment inquiry a hoax and a witch hunt.