Trump fired the intelligence community lawyer who told Congress about the Ukraine whistleblower complaint

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• President Donald Trump removed the intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson on Friday evening, and his dismissal will be effective in 30 days, CNN reported.
• Atkinson made headlines last year when it surfaced that he alerted Congress about a whistleblower's complaint that accused the president of soliciting foreign election interference.
• In a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump said he no longer had the "fullest confidence" in Atkinson.
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The US intelligence official who opposed efforts to conceal a whistleblower's complaint about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine will be out of a job in 30 days. The firing was announced in a letter from the White House to the US Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, as reported by Politico.

On August 26, 2019, Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, submitted the whistleblower's complaint to acting Director of Intelligence Joseph Maguire. 

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