The Trump whistleblower told the House Intelligence Committee about their concerns before filing an official complaint

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• A CIA officer who blew the whistle on President Donald Trump first shared their concerns with the House Intelligence Committee before filing an official complaint, The New York Times reported.
• The official reportedly approached a committee aide with their concerns, and the aide told them to obtain a lawyer and get advice about filing a whistleblower complaint through the US intelligence community.
• The aide then conveyed what the whistleblower told them to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
• The official's complaint alleges that Trump abused the power of his office and solicited foreign interference from Ukraine in the 2020 election against his political rival.
• "Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community," Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff, told The Times.
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The CIA officer who made an official whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump told the House Intelligence Committee of their concerns before filing the complaint, The New York Times reported.

The official first conveyed their concerns about the president to the CIA's top lawyer through a colleague. But when the whistleblower became worried about the way the agency was handling the information, they decided to go to Congress.

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