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H illary Clinton couldn’t get away from the issue of a private email server in the 2016 election. Donald Trump said it was “ bigger than Watergate ” and she deserved to go to jail for it. Now, Trump has been caught using a secret computer system ― a private server, if you will ― to hide his election interference attempts. epublicans have made it very clear that secret servers are a criminal offense,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist who served on the Clinton campaign. “Will they apply the same rules to Trump that they apply to everyone else?” An explosive letter  from an unnamed intelligence official was released Thursday detailing attempts by the White House to cover up Trump’s wrongdoing.  On more than one occasion, White House officials put transcripts of Trump’s conversations into a “standalone computer system” that was meant for storing sensitive and classified intelligence information. Officials were abusing that system , the letter ...

The whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer detailed to the White House at one point, first expressed his concerns anonymously to the agency’s top lawyer. Image The C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va. The whistle-blower is a C.I.A. officer, people familiar with the matter said. Credit Credit Charles Ommanney/Getty Image. By   Julian E. Barnes ,  Michael S. Schmidt ,  Adam Goldman  and  Katie Benner WASHINGTON — The White House learned that a C.I.A. officer had lodged allegations against President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine even as the officer’s whistle-blower complaint was moving through a process meant to protect him against reprisals, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The officer first shared information about  potential abuse of power and a White House cover-up  with the C.I.A.’s top lawyer through an anonymous process, some of the people said. She shared the officer’s concerns with White House an...

The White House  releas ed  this document on Wednesday, showing a July call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. The document warned its contents were “not a verbatim transcript.”  Read our live coverage of the impeachment inquiry . The President : Congratulations on a great victory. We all watched from the United States and you did a terrific job. The way you came from behind, somebody who wasn’t given much of a chance, and you ended up winning easily. It’s a fantastic achievement. Congratulations. (S/NF)   President Zelenskyy : You are absolutely right Mr. President. We did win big and we worked hard for this. We worked a lot but I would like to confess to you that I had an opportunity to learn from you. We used quite a few of your skills and knowledge and were able to use it as an example for our elections and yes it is true that these were unique elections. We were in a unique situation that we were able to CAUTION: A M...

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over the president's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. "The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law," said Pelosi, who accused him of betraying his oath of office and endangering national security. "The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution," she said, "especially when the president says 'I can do whatever I want.'" Democrats have expressed alarm over an August complaint from an unnamed official in the intelligence community who expressed concerns over Trump's contacts with Ukraine. On July 25, Trump had a phone call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky to urge him to fight corruption. He has acknowledged bringing up Biden in that conversation. Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani have been pushing Ukraine...