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New reporting and official handling of the whistleblower complaint kept pushing the Ukraine affair from rumor into a real governing crisis on September 18, with the White House facing mounting questions about whether Trump pressed a foreign leader for help against a political rival.
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New reporting and official handling of the whistleblower complaint kept pushing the Ukraine affair from rumor into a real governing crisis on September 18, with the White House facing mounting questions about whether Trump pressed a foreign leader for help against a political rival.
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New reporting and official handling of the whistleblower complaint kept pushing the Ukraine affair from rumor into a real governing crisis on September 18, with the White House facing mounting questions about whether Trump pressed a foreign leader for help against a political rival.
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