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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's Fiction About Whistleblower Complaint

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are making
   groundless accusations that a whistleblower complaint by a CIA officer
   was improperly filed because it was not based on first-hand knowledge.

   In tweets and public statements, they assert that a whistleblower
   cannot submit a complaint if it relies on so-called hearsay or
   second-hand information. They also suggest nefarious behavior -- "deep
   state," as one White House adviser put it -- in the circumstances
   surrounding the form for the complaint, which alleged that Trump abused
   his office in pressing for a Ukrainian investigation of Democratic
   rival Joe Biden.

   Their statements were rebutted Monday by the inspector general for the
   intelligence community and misrepresent reality.

   TRUMP: "The so-called 'Whistleblower' has all second hand information."
   -- tweet Tuesday.
   

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