Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says President Donald Trump is “unraveling” in response to evidence of his corruption as detailed in the whistleblower complaint published Thursday.
"We are seeing both in real-time, with the president's remarks and also through documentary evidence, his corruption," Bernstein told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
"We're watching, too, an unraveling in front of us, both factually and also temperamentally, in terms of the conduct of the president of the United States," Bernstein said.
"And why?" he added. "Well, partly because the president of the United States recognizes that there is in this whistleblower's documents terrible evidence of the President's corruption."
Trump in a summer phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky asked for help in investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. In the days before the call, Trump ordered advisers to freeze nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine.
A complaint filed by an intelligence officer about Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine was published Thursday. It reads, in part: “In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”
Bernstein referred to Trump’s conduct as illegal and abusive and argued that the complaint showed Trump's "willingness to undermine the free electoral system in this country, to involve foreign powers in our election, and also to try and get (the attorney general) involved."