A second whistleblower has come forward with first-hand knowledge of President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, complicating efforts by Trump and his Republican supporters to dismiss the initial complaint as politically motivated. More here:
WASHINGTON - A second whistleblower has come forward with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s attempts to get the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, lawyers for the official said on Sunday.
It also alleged that Trump leveraged $400 million in aid to secure a promise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. Republican U.S. Senators Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Susan Collins have expressed concerns about Trump reaching out to foreign countries to help him in his 2020 re-election bid.
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said Trump had “sent his administration into a tailspin by trying to bully a foreign country into spreading a comprehensively debunked conspiracy theory about the vice president” and he predicted Trump would lose “the old-fashioned way: an intervention by his own country - courtesy of the American people - in 2020.
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