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Trump suggests firing watchdog was payback for impeachment

by Associated Press
| April 5, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested that he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community in retaliation for impeachment, saying the official was wrong to provide an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress as the law requires.

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