Whistle-Blower's Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

The complaint goes beyond a commitment that President Trump was said to have made to a world leader.

A potentially explosive complaint by a whistle-blower in the intelligence community said to involve President Trump was related to a series of actions that goes beyond any single discussion with a foreign leader, according to interviews on Thursday.

The complaint was related to multiple acts, Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for American spy agencies, told lawmakers during a private briefing, two officials familiar with it said. But he declined to discuss specifics, including whether the complaint involved the president, according to committee members.

Separately, a person familiar with the whistle-blower’s complaint said it involves in part a commitment that Mr. Trump made in a communication with another world leader. The Washington Post first reported the nature of that discussion. But no single communication was at the root of the complaint, another person familiar with it said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/politics/intelligence-whistle-blower-complaint-trump.html

[OKNancy]

1. Sickening

I hope to god that we find out all about it and soon. This can't go on.

[ancianita]

14. It will. Even past next week. When/how we find out should be on national television.

[Mike 03]

2. What if he asked several world leaders to help him with the election

but made one particular promise to one of them that was of particular significance to the intelligence community?

[Iliyah]

3. Sounds like a copy of the complaint may already be in the hands

of people who will publish it. That the order to not turn it over to the house came from Barr himself.

[scarytomcat]

19. after threatening people so they keep quiet

Bar should be locked up

[diva77]

4. K&R for exposure

[Mc Mike]

5. And only about half of them were non-standard sex acts.

The other half of the 'acts' -- there are about a dozen wackjob dictators he's buddies with, & he's doing sleazy treasonous 'deals' with all of them. He commits felonies and treason on stage with a bullhorn, using mass media.

He's a giant orange termite, gnawing on all that antique wainscoating in D.C.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Good...

This *HAS* to be the silver fuckin' bullet that ends our national nightmare...

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. If his supporters I am around are any guage

not in the slightest.

[a kennedy]

16. I so hope you're right, but as usual, I have doubts, like every other

potential silver bullet that was going to get rid of him for the last 3 years. I JUST WANT IT TO HAPPEN.

[revmclaren]

7. Maybe the whistleblower created a

'deadman switch' in case he disappeared or the complaint was stopped by the Whitehouse. All the information could be in the hands of multiple individuals.

We can hope.



ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

[SergeStorms]

9. Trump does not break the law once....

if he breaks it once, or does something completely dishonorable or shitty, he does it a hundred times. Laws and common decency mean nothing to Trump. He's the asshole of the world, meaning 'if you were going to give the world an enema, Trump's mouth is where you'd stick the tube'.

[targetpractice]

10. One of my mother's favorite expressions!

We moved to a small town in the midwest for a couple of years, and she insisted "if the the world needed an enema, they'd stick the nozzle right here."

Thanks for the flashback! And, your claim about Trump being a repeat offender is absolutely TRUE!

[SergeStorms]

20. I don't know where I originally heard that....

but it tickled my funny bone enough to remember and use it whenever possible. Your Mom sounds like a smart woman.

[scarytomcat]

21. Dump only cares about himself

he will do anything to save his ass

[marble falls]

11. Where is all this information coming from and at the same time, why are there ...

no specific details?

[elleng]

12. reporters doing their job:

By Nicholas Fandos, Eileen Sullivan, Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg

Charlie Savage and Michael S. Schmidt contributed reporting.

Matthew Rosenberg, a Washington-based correspondent, was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump and Russia. He previously spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. @AllMattNYT • Facebook

Nicholas Fandos is a reporter in the Washington bureau covering Congress. @npfandos

Eileen Sullivan is the morning breaking news correspondent in Washington. She previously worked for The Associated Press for a decade, covering national security and criminal justice. @esullivannyt

Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for the Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes • Facebook

[marble falls]

13. They're reporting it, who's dropping details but not giving out the real meat? ...

what did Donnie Two Scoops promise Putin about defense money to be sent to Ukraine or whatever it was?

[Blackjackdavey]

28. Very important question

This is a critical question because it seems to me all of this thing has served to do so far is to get the Biden story in the news which they have been trying to do for a while now. I am skeptical of the leaks and the purpose. I wouldn't be in the least surprised to learn that this whole thing has been a hoax for that reason alone or that the whistleblower complaint has nothing at all to do with Ukraine.

[NotHardly]

15. As awful as this is, did anyone expect that it would not be so?

[brutus smith]

17. Let's move slowly on this

Maybe it will go away before the election. (Sarcasm)

[scarytomcat]

18. the whistle blower probably heard dump

make a deal with the saudi killer to bomb Iran and they agreed to blow-up some oil tanks to have a reason for the attack on Iran
he has been playing up his friendship for weeks... billions of dollars in cash and jobs makes SA our great friend talk
Dipshit is going to start a war and Iran is going to really hit back hard maybe in Israel but totally spill some oil in SA
Nukes could fly when Israel hits back
just my guess dump knows he has to make a move because he is falling in the polls
So many crimes are being committed every day

[SansACause]

22. I'm having trouble following this whole thing.

Maybe Trump did something really, really bad but nobody knows or will say what it is. I don't really get the purpose of such reports.

[oasis]

23. Trump is toast.

[Maxheader]

24. So many hard accusations of cheetox..

and so many have failed..so far..

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[2naSalit]

26. Sounds more like it.

Can't imagine it's simply one point upon which a complaint, after all this time and overt corruption.

[seltzerwater]

27. just a thought..

But can we as citizens ask for a FOIA release of the whistle-blower complaint?

[elleng]

29. We can ASK all we want,

but at least FOIA requires formal requests, it's a legal process (which in the past was honored pretty well; now not so much, I suspect.)