![]() On the evening of 25 July, a readout was posted on the website of the Ukrainian President that contained the following line (translation from original Russian-language readout): The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call. They told me that there was already a "discussion ongoing" with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain. The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. Lutsenko made a series of public allegations - many of which he later walked back - about the Biden family's activities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials' purported involvement in the 2016 U.S. Zelenskyy might want to keep him in his position. The President also praised Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem. meet or speak with two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr.cyber security firm Crowdstrike, which initially reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the networks in 2016 and presidential election originated in Ukraine, with a specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S. assist in purportedly uncovering that allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.According to the White House officials who had direct knowledge of the call, the President pressured Mr. Namely, he sought to pressure the Ukrainian leader to take actions to help the President's 2020 reelection bid. Multiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me that, after an initial exchange of pleasantries, the President used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. Zelenskyy won the presidency on 21 April. This was the first publicly acknowledged call between the two leaders since a brief congratulatory call after Mr. I do not know which side initiated the call. If a classification marking is applied retroactively, I believe it is incumbent upon the classifying authority to explain why such a marking was applied, and to which specific information it pertains.Įarly in the morning of 25 July, the President spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.I have endeavored to apply the classification standards outlined in Executive Order (EO) 13526 and to separate out information that I know or have reason to believe is classified for national security purposes. To the best of my knowledge, the entirety of this statement is unclassified when separated from the classified enclosure. Government's efforts to deter and counter foreign interference in U.S. I am also concerned that these actions pose risks to U.S.I am therefore fulfilling my duty to report this information, through proper legal channels, to the relevant authorities. I am deeply concerned that the actions described below constitute "a serious or flagrant problem, abuse, or violation of law or Executive Order" that "does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters," consistent with the definition of an "urgent concern" in 50 U.S.C. In addition, a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly. ![]() However, I found my colleagues' accounts of these events to be credible because, in almost all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent with one another. I was not a direct witness to most of the events described.officials with responsibility for a particular regional or functional portfolio to share such information with one another in order to inform policymaking and analysis. The information provided herein was relayed to me in the course of official interagency business. officials have informed me of various facts related to this effort. Over the past four months, more than half a dozen U.S. ![]() Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals. 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 U.S. In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S.
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