2nd whistleblower with ‘first-hand’ info on Trump-Ukraine scandal comes forward
A second whistle-blower has come forward with allegedly direct information about US President Donald Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating his potential 2020 presidential election rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Mark Zaid, the lawyer for both whistleblowers, said on Sunday that the person is an intelligence official and has “first-hand knowledge” of some of the allegations involving the first whistleblower’s complaint, which triggered impeachment proceedings against the Republican president.
Zaid said the second whistleblower had spoken with the inspector general as part of an initial examination of his allegations.
Zaid's co-counsel, Andrew Bakaj, claimed that his team represented “multiple whistle-blowers” in the case since the initial complaint was filed with the inspector general on August 12, in which the US president is accused of pressuring his Ukrainian counterpart during a phone call to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter.
During the July 25 call, Trump reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about eight times to work with his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate government corruption involving the Bidens, warning that he would not give Ukraine the promised military aid in case he refused.
The call prompted Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry based on a whistleblower complaint that accused Trump of "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election."
The US president dismissed the Ukraine allegations as another witch-hunt aimed at smearing him and damage his popularity as the Americans get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who launched an impeachment inquiry of Trump late last month, said he betrayed his oath of office by seeking help from a foreign power to hurt his Democratic rival and that a successful impeachment would be worth losing the Democrats’ House majority in 2020.
According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, nearly half of Americans believe Trump should be impeached.
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