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(CNN) - The intelligence commission of the House of Representatives published the declassified complaint of a complainant about the phone call of the US president, Donald Trump, with the president of Ukraine, Zelensky.
The complaint focuses on the concern that the president was using his power to "request interference from a foreign country" in the elections.
The plaintiff says that the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, "is a central figure in this effort."
The complainant writes that the July 25 call, which describes details similar to the transcript published by the White House on Wednesday, left White House officials "disturbed by what happened."
The complaint states that the White House lawyers "were already under discussion" on "how to handle the call due to the likelihood, according to officials, that they would have witnessed the president abusing his power for personal gain."
Trump tweeted, all in capital letters: "THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY"
The president tweeted just after the complaint against him was disclosed:
THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR. STICK TOGETHER, PLAY THEIR GAME, AND FIGHT HARD REPUBLICANS. OUR COUNTRY IS AT STAKE!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2019
What we know about the complaint
The Washington Post, citing a person who had read the complaint, said the document "alleges a pattern of obfuscation in the White House," including that officials moved the records of some of Trump's talks with foreign officials to a "separate computer network from where they are normally stored".
The complaint was personally delivered Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol, giving lawmakers their first chance to see the classified document that encouraged Democrats to launch a formal investigation of political trial. The Democrats who read the document, which is available to legislators in two secure facilities, one in each chamber, say they support the commitment to their investigation. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence also provided an edited version to Congress that members can take to an open hearing, a spokesman said.
The complaint was delivered only a few hours after the White House published an approximate transcript of a July 25 telephone call showing that the president repeatedly pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son.
"The allegations seemed deeply disturbing," said the president of the House Intelligence Commission, Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. "I also found them deeply credible and I understand why the inspector general found them credible."
Illinois Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley, a member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, called the complainant's complaint "worrying, disturbing" and "reinforces our concerns."
He also said he thought the complaint was "very well done."
"After reading the documents there, I am even more worried about what happened than when I read the memorandum of the conversation," said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell said the complainant "invokes other witnesses to the disruptive behavior" in the complaint and presents "many other documents."
Swalwell, a member of the Judicial and Intelligence committees of the House of Representatives, told CNN Wolf Blitzer that the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, is preventing lawmakers from seeing the full report, but said he could read the complaint of the complainant.
Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt told reporters that the report had approximately 10 or 12 pages, but said he did not count the pages. He said he was now no more worried than before reading the report.
The conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is included in the whistleblower complaint, said a source familiar with the situation last week, a revelation only raised more questions in the ongoing controversy.
Trump has downplayed the importance of the complaint, claiming that the complainant is partisan and that his talks with foreign leaders are "appropriate."
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