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Trump condemned for retweeting article that named Ukraine whistleblower [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Trump condemned for retweeting article that named Ukraine whistleblower
• Trump retweeted post by re-election campaign account
• Advisers have told Trump not to disclose name in public
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 27 Dec 2019 17.39 GMT
Last modified on Fri 27 Dec 2019 20.05 GMT
Donald Trump is inching dangerously closer to publicly naming the purported whistleblower whose complaint about the US president’s dealings with Ukraine led to his impeachment.
The president drew the attention of his 68 million Twitter followers to a tweet by his re-election campaign’s “war room” that linked to an article by the conservative Washington Examiner news website. The article, published on 3 December, has the name of the alleged whistleblower in its headline.
Trump’s retweet quickly drew sharp criticism. Amy Siskind, president of the New Agenda, a nonpartisan advocacy organisation, posted on Friday: “This is not acceptable behavior from the so-called leader of our country, and he must be called to task for it!”
The whistleblower is reportedly a CIA analyst . They filed an anonymous complaint in August alleging Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce an investigation into a political rival – a violation of laws against seeking foreign help in US elections.
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• Trump retweeted post by re-election campaign account
• Advisers have told Trump not to disclose name in public
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 27 Dec 2019 17.39 GMT
Last modified on Fri 27 Dec 2019 20.05 GMT
Donald Trump is inching dangerously closer to publicly naming the purported whistleblower whose complaint about the US president’s dealings with Ukraine led to his impeachment.
The president drew the attention of his 68 million Twitter followers to a tweet by his re-election campaign’s “war room” that linked to an article by the conservative Washington Examiner news website. The article, published on 3 December, has the name of the alleged whistleblower in its headline.
Trump’s retweet quickly drew sharp criticism. Amy Siskind, president of the New Agenda, a nonpartisan advocacy organisation, posted on Friday: “This is not acceptable behavior from the so-called leader of our country, and he must be called to task for it!”
The whistleblower is reportedly a CIA analyst . They filed an anonymous complaint in August alleging Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce an investigation into a political rival – a violation of laws against seeking foreign help in US elections.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-president
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