While many Democrats have been calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment since before he even took office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after struggling for months to rein in the more radical members of her party, initiated a formal impeachment inquiry into the president this week. The document ultimately responsible for pushing the Democrats’ impeachment campaign to the next level was a complaint filed by a whistleblower about a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky in which Trump encouraged his Ukrainian counterpart to “look into” corruption allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
With the firestorm over the call raging, President Trump agreed to release both the partial transcript of the call (released Wednesday) and the full complaint (released Thursday), allowing the public to read for themselves what was alleged and what had actually taken place. After the administration announced that it would release the complaint, an administration official told reporters that the intelligence community inspector general found the whistleblower had “political bias” in favor of “a rival candidate” of the president, Fox News reported.
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