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Letter from Schiff, E. Engel, and Cummings to Cipollone Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) 1 (9/24/2019)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0021 and id is 1 raw text is: Tvngrei uf ie 3fniftrI *taWe September 24, 2019 Mr. Pat Cipollone Counsel to the President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. Cipollone: On September 9, 2019, the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform wrote to you requesting documents relating to reports that President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pressed the Ukranian government to interfere with the upcoming U.S. Presidential election by pursuing investigations that could benefit President Trump politically. Our request was predicated on a growing public record of the President and his personal lawyer's participation in such a scheme, which prompted our Committees to initiate a joint investigation in June. We asked that the White House produce these documents by September 16, 2019.1 To date, the White House has failed to acknowledge our request or comply in any way with the Committees' request for documents. According to press reports, which multiple outlets have confirmed,2 documents requested by the Committees-particularly the transcript of the President's July 25, 2019, phone call with newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 1may be part of or related to a lawful whistleblower disclosure that Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire continues to improperly withhold from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in violation of his express statutory obligation.3 Over the past few days, there has been a dramatic shift in the President's public statements about his call with President Zelensky, as well as troubling attacks by the President on the whistleblower,4 The President initially appeared to deny press reports that he urged President Zelensky to investigate the son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.5 By Sunday, September 22, the President explicitly admitted that he raised during his call with President Zelensky the widely debunked conspiracy theory attempting to link Vice President Biden to corruption in Ukraine. He stated: The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine and Ukraine, Ukraine's got a lot of problems. The new president is saying that he's going to PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER

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