White House Tried To Cover Up Info On Alleged Trump-Ukraine Call

President Donald Trump is once again on hot water after a whistleblower alleges that the POTUS attempted to smear Joe Biden's name with the aid Volodymyr Zelensky.

In a report by BBC News, the whistleblower claims that Senior White House officials tried to "lockdown" sensitive information about the alleged conversation. In the call, President Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate his political rival.

According to the complainant, the information was stored in a separate system used for classified files. On Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi, the most senior Democrat announced that the party is pushing ahead with the formal impeachment inquiry versus the Republican POTUS.

Pelosi is accusing Trump of seeking outside help in a smear campaign targeted against Joe. Biden is trying for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election.

Pelosi added that the president is using the military aid to Ukraine as a bargaining tool. The POTUS did acknowledge that he blocked an estimated $400m military aid to Ukraine before he spoke to Volodymyr Zelensky.

However, he denied that it was to pressure the Ukrainian leadership into investigating Biden. The whistleblower complaint came as lawmakers in the US House of Representatives intelligence committee began to question Trump's top intelligence officials on the alleged call.

Joseph Maguire, the Acting National Intelligence Director reluctantly shared the complaint with the Congress. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump dismissed the impeachment as a "witch-hunt" and a "hoax."

He angrily tweeted his sentiments and urged the Republican party to "stick together" and "fight hard." On Thursday, Maguire said he understood the whistleblower and believes that he acted in "good faith."

The complaint accuses the POTUS of using the power of his office to solicit aid from a foreign country in the upcoming 2020 US elections. The now unclassified document focuses on Trump's conduct as a "serious problem, abuse, or violation of the law."

The complainant said that they had heard from several sources that senior White House officials had sought to "lockdown" all records of the conversation. Most notably the official word-for-word account of the phone call.

The whistleblower added that the recording was kept in a "stand-alone computer system reserved for codeword-level intelligence information."
The complainant also believes that this is "not the first time" that official presidential conversations were put on the particular drive.