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The U.S official’s (whistleblower) attorney said that complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, has agreed to communicate directly with members of the Republican Party on the intelligence committee leading the probe. Mark Zaid said that he had reached out to congressman Devin Nunes to offer to provide sworn written responses to questions from Republicans. Nunes is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Zaid said after repeated attacks from Republicans, who have alleged him of bias. He said that his client is a member of the US intelligence community. He was prepared to respond to those allegations. Zaid added that they had been trying publicizing his client’s identity, which could “jeopardize their safety, as well as that of their family”.

Zaid wrote on Twitter, “Recent GOP messaging, led by President Trump (including this morning) has been to highlight original #WBer & demand disclosure of identity”. He used the acronym for “Grand Old Party”, which the Republicans are often referred to as. It is noteworthy that the impeachment inquiry was launched last month after a whistleblower complaint from the unidentified U.S intelligence official who was concerned that the president’s actions on Ukraine were illegal and jeopardized national security. A White House summary of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed that Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate his rival.

Trump had attacked the whistleblower and claimed his call with Ukrainian president Zelensky was “perfect”. He claimed without proof that the news media already knows the identity of the whistleblower and that he should be identified publicly. Trump called the whistleblower an “Obama guy” and a fraud, later on, the White House lawn. He added, “The whistleblower should be revealed, due to the whistleblower gave a false story”. Democrats in recent weeks have moved away from expressing publicly that they need to hear from the whistleblower. They managed closed-door testimony from individuals who were actually on the phone call in July.