Whistleblowing

The whistleblower who filed an explosive complaint against Trump is reportedly a CIA officer once assigned to the White House

The whistleblower who filed an explosive national-security complaint against President Donald Trump is a CIA officer who was once assigned to the White House, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The whistleblower said in the complaint, which was released to the public on Thursday morning, that US officials had told them that Trump was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."

The complaint detailed concerns that in a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump undermined national security by pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, after withholding a nearly $400 million military-aid package.