President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow on Friday accused the whistleblower complaint that was recently declassified of being “written by a law firm.”
Sekulow, while on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, was asked about the allegation made in the complaint that the White House “took the transcript of the call with the Ukrainian president and put it in a secret — super-secret, top secret codeword-protected computer.”
“Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Steve, think about that for a moment. The White House secured a call with the president of Ukraine?” Sekulow interjected. “It’s so secretive and such a coverup, here is the documents. I mean, this is nuts. This is nonsense.”
White House officials confirmed to CNN on Friday that the Ukraine call transcript was filed in a highly classified system at the direction of National Security Counsel attorneys.
Sekulow went on to call the whistleblower a “spy,” and said the complaint is “hearsay,” before questioning whether the whistleblower actually wrote the complaint.
“And do you think the whistleblower drafted that complaint?” Sekulow asked. “I mean realistically?”
When asked if he thought they had help, Sekulow said, “Look at the phraseology, the endnotes and the footnotes. This wasn’t drafted by this individual. This was written by a law firm.”