The whistleblower complaint released Wednesday, which charges Trump with “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election” provides both reasons for caution in taking all of its claims as gospel, but also reasons to take the claims seriously enough to warrant follow up.

The whistleblower states that he or she was “not a direct witness to most of the events described” and that the accounts involve information received from “more than a half dozen U.S. officials.” At the same time, the whistleblower describes the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a way that is largely, though not completely, consistent with the transcript of the call that was provided by the White House.