The White House faced accusations of a cover-up yesterday after the publication of a whistleblower complaint that alleged US officials used a classified storage system to hide the transcript of a call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart.
The complaint added new details to a widening controversy over the call in which Mr Trump asked President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate Mr Trump’s potential election rival Joe Biden and the business dealings of his son, Hunter.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, who announced impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump over the call this week, said the White House had engaged in a “cover-up”.