Article snippet: MORE’s troubles grew deeper and darker on Thursday morning when a whistleblower complaint became public. Trump is facing serious threat of impeachment over his dealings with Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.), a reluctant convert to the impeachment cause, is now spearheading the effort. Trump and his allies are fighting back over the allegations. The president insists the whole matter is a “hoax” and that he did nothing wrong. White House press secretary MORE, in a Thursday morning statement, dismissed the complaint as “nothing more than a collection of third-hand accounts of events and cobbled-together press clippings—all of which shows nothing improper.” But those statements won’t quell the storm, at least for now. Here are the most serious allegations. The White House sought to hide details of Trump’s phone call The central episode in the controversy is Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky, in which he pressed the Ukrainian president to investigate unsubstantiated allegations against former Vice President MORE and his son Hunter. The big revelation in the whistleblower’s complaint is the suggestion that the White House sought to hide the word-for-word transcript of the call. This move was allegedly motivated, at least in part, because those with knowledge of the call realized “they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.” The whistleblower goes on to allege that “senior White House officials had ... Link to the full article to read more