ADAD“He knew long before, and he helped write it, too,” Trump said at a news conference alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. “The whole thing is a scam.”An attorney for the whistleblower, whose identity has not been made public, rebutted Trump’s claim. Andrew Clark, a Trump reelection campaign spokesman, questioned whether the whistleblower’s legal team coordinated with Schiff or his staff. Zaid said there was no contact between the whistleblower’s lawyers and Congress until weeks after the complaint was filed with the intelligence community’s inspector general. But, whistleblower attorney Bradley Moss said, retaliation for a security infraction of this sort — seeking informal guidance from Congress — is unlikely.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2019 21:22 UTC