Trump compares the official who denounced the Ukrainian call with a "spy"

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The author of the internal complaint against Trump is a CIA agent who worked "at some point" in the White House, according to The New York Times

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, compared this Thursday with a "spy" the intelligence official who filed an internal complaint following his call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelenski, and suggested that the person committed "treason."

The US president made the comment during a private and informal meeting with the staff of the United States mission to the United Nations and their families, after attending this week the General Assembly that held this international organization in New York.

Although the comment was made privately, US media obtained videos in which the words spoken by Trump are heard.

"This is something like a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were ready, right? With spies and betrayal, right?" Trump said according to a transcript of The Washington Post.

"We used to handle something different from how we do it now," he added, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The leak of the call, in which Trump asked Zelenski to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden for alleged corruption in Ukraine, has caused the Democrats to have initiated a process of political trial against the president.

The New York Times newspaper revealed Thursday that the author of the explosive internal complaint against Trump is a CIA agent who worked "at some point" in the White House, but has already returned to the agency's premises.

The newspaper does not mention the name of the informant, but considers that it must be an experienced analyst with knowledge of the relationship between Washington and Kiev, since he wrote with great precision his complaint, nine pages and made public this Thursday.

That complaint offers a vivid compilation of dates, places and protagonists of what could be the Ukrainian plot, in remembrance of the "Russian plot".

"In the performance of my duties," the CIA agent writes, "I have received information from multiple government officials who claim that the US president used the power conferred on him to request interference from a foreign country in the 2020 elections. "

The informant submitted his complaint to the US spy services six weeks ago, but could not be published until now because the information was classified, the acting director of the National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, explained before a committee of Congress .

Maguire said the current situation presents a "unique and unprecedented" case, and said that the informant acted in "good faith", in an attempt to defend him from Trump's attacks that accuses him of acting on political grounds.

Democrats announced Tuesday the opening of a political trial process against Trump after learning details of the president's request to Zelenski, who consider a "betrayal" of US national security.