Trump Whistle-Blower Goes Where Mueller Never Could

  • Republicans stay largely quiet about whistle-blower complaint
  • President criticized for calling whistle-blower ‘almost a spy’
Trump on Whistle-Blower, Biden, Media in Closed-Door Remarks
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Revelations about Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine’s president are shaping up to be the most serious threat to his presidency so far, surpassing even the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference that dogged the first two years of his administration.

A whistle-blower complaint released Thursday alleging that Trump abused his power when he asked Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden in a July 25 call compounded the damage from a rough transcript of the conversation the White House released a day earlier.