On Thursday, the Trump administration released the whistleblower complaint at the center of the Ukraine controversy that prompted the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The complaint accuses Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election” by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “look into” former Vice President Joe Biden pressuring Ukraine to remove its top prosecutor, who had investigated Biden’s son’s company for corruption. The complaint also alleges that the White House attempted to “’lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced,” though the administration released the transcript Wednesday.
While Trump’s critics are pointing to the transcript and complaint as evidence that Trump sought the help of a foreign country to “interfere” in a U.S. election, reports of Democrats doing something similar have begun to emerge. On Tuesday, The Washington Post called out the apparent “double standard” of Democrats, noting that “Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe.”
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