Nancy Pelosi vows to protect whistle-blower from ‘Trump intimidation’

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Pelosi says Trump's actions are worse than former president Richard Nixon's in the Watergate scandal

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“I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistle-blower,” the California Democrat said. “This is really important, especially when it comes to intelligence, that someone who would be courageous enough to point out truth to power and then through the filter of a Trump-appointed inspector general who found it of urgent concern … and then took it to the next steps.”

“He offers nothing new — still no quid pro quo, still no smoking gun, still the same information,” Turner said.Democratic Representative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, another member of the House intelligence panel, said that evidence of impeachable offenses against Trump is building.

 

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