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White House officials sought to "lock down" records of a phone call in which President Donald Trump abused his executive authority when he urged his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to a whistleblower complaint made public Thursday.

The complaint is in part related to a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which Trump prodded Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Biden.

"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all the records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the White House situation room," the complaint said. "This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call."

The complaint said the full electronic call transcript was removed by White House officials at the direction of White House lawyers from the "computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored" before distribution to Cabinet-level officials and moved instead to another server that is used to handle and store information deemed classified and "especially sensitive." According to the whistleblower, one White House official described this act as an "abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective."