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(CNN) - The complainant's complaint is already public: it was declassified and in it the complainant says that US President Donald Trump tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 elections, and that the White House tried to cover it up.
This is the main thing in the complainant's complaint:
The complainant was confused by Trump's obsession with the Crowdstrike company
From Marshall Cohen of CNN
The complainant expresses confusion about Trump's references to CrowdStrike during his calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Context: the National Democratic Committee hired CrowdStrike in 2016 to investigate the attacks on their computers, which the Russian Government was then blamed for.
In the call, Trump mentioned the US cybersecurity company and said: "The server, they say that Ukraine has it." Trump also encouraged Zelensky to "find out what happened" with the server.
"I don't know why the president associates these servers with Ukraine," the complainant wrote in a footnote to his letter, addressed to Congress.
The complainant added that Trump had previously connected the National Democratic Committee (DNC) server to Ukraine in television interviews.
Trump's interest in CrowdStrike and the DNC server, more than three years after the attacks, is part of a major effort to undermine the idea that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections to help him win. He repeatedly rejected CrowdStrike's evaluation, which was later confirmed by US intelligence agencies, that Russia was behind the DNC attacks and leaks.
The complainant says that state officials spoke with Rudy Giuliani to "contain the damage" to national security
From Katelyn Polantz of CNN
US officials were worried, the complainant said, with the contact of Trump's private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine.
The complainant alleges that US officials believed that Giuliani was a conduit for messages between the president and officials in Kiev.
Two US State Department officials had spoken with Giuliani "in an attempt to 'contain the damage' to the national security of the United States," writes the complainant.
State Department officials also met with Ukrainian leaders to capture the different messages they received from US officials and those they received from Giuliani, the complainant wrote.
The complaint also describes how the day after the president's call with the leader of Ukraine, state officials met with Ukrainian political figures and provided advice on how to "navigate" the demands the president had made to Mr. Zelenskyy. "
What we know and don't know about the complainant
The complaint has been disclosed to the public.
This is what we know and do not know so far about the complainant:
- This person has provisionally agreed to meet with Congress legislators.
- The complainant does not plan to appear before Congress, a source said.
- Legislators have not been informed about the identity of the complainant or where the plaintiff works in the Government
Informant says that using the intelligence system administrator to block transcription was "abuse" of the system
The complainant alleges that the administration has blocked other Trump transcripts in a more secret computer system for political reasons, according to his complaint.
The complainant describes how the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call was transferred to a computer system administered by the Directorate of Intelligence Programs of the National Security Council, in a partially drafted appendix attached to his complaint.
This movement was worrying for some officials, who shared their concerns internally that this was an "abuse of the system."
"According to the White House officials with whom I spoke, this 'was not the first time' under this Administration that a presidential transcript was placed in this keyword security level system with the sole purpose of protecting information for political purposes , instead of for national security purposes. ”
The complainant does not provide further details of these accusations.
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