{"id":128850,"date":"2019-09-30T06:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128850"},"modified":"2019-09-30T06:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:46:21","slug":"whistleblower-complaint-written-by-a-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128850","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Complaint Written By A Law Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">&#8216;This wasn\u2019t drafted by this individual&#8217;: Trump lawyer claims whistleblower complaint written &#8216;by a law firm<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Washington Examiner<\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow alleged that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/read-whistleblower-complaint-about-trump-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cms-id=\"0000016d-6bad-d363-af7d-effd28340000\" data-cms-href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/read-whistleblower-complaint-about-trump-here\">whistleblower complaint<\/a>\u00a0filed by an intelligence community official was written by &#8220;a law firm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower, who is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/intense-white-house-buzz-about-identity-of-whistleblower-and-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cms-id=\"0000016d-6ec3-d71f-af6d-fedf12780000\" data-cms-href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/intense-white-house-buzz-about-identity-of-whistleblower-and-sources\">believed to work for the CIA<\/a>, filed the complaint and detailed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/read-white-house-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-ukraines-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cms-id=\"0000016d-68b6-d71f-af6d-fcbe98270000\" data-cms-href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/read-white-house-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-ukraines-president\">Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call<\/a>\u00a0with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the president requested the foreign leader to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The complaint, which was released on Thursday, and the rest of the details surrounding the phone call led to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing a formal impeachment investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sekulow appeared on\u00a0<i>Fox &amp; Friends\u00a0<\/i>Friday morning to discuss the ongoing saga.<\/p>\n<p>He began, &#8220;So, when you start with a witness saying, Steve and Brian, \u2018I have no knowledge of the events I\u2019m depicting here, and I\u2019m basing this on conversations I had with colleagues of mine, and I think they are trustworthy.\u2019 Well, do you know if they heard it correctly? Well, I don\u2019t know because I don\u2019t have firsthand knowledge. And do you think the whistleblower drafted that complaint? I mean realistically?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9BjZmIl2cg\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou think they had help? Did they have help?\u201d Steve Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at the phraseology, the endnotes, and the footnotes,&#8221; Sekulow responded. &#8220;This wasn\u2019t drafted by this individual. This was written by a law firm. And you know what? The American people see it for what it is. No one has the \u2014 nobody has the appetite for this anymore. They want to keep doing it? Call for a vote. That\u2019s my tell for [House Judiciary Chairman] Jerry Nadler and [House Intelligence Chairman] Adam Schiff. Call for a vote. Just go ahead and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/this-wasnt-drafted-by-this-individual-trump-lawyer-claims-whistleblower-complaint-was-written-by-law-firm\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/this-wasnt-drafted-by-this-individual-trump-lawyer-claims-whistleblower-complaint-was-written-by-law-firm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This wasn\u2019t drafted by this individual&#8217;: Trump lawyer claims whistleblower complaint written &#8216;by a law firm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}