WASHINGTON -- After a whistleblower's complaint about President Donald Trump was declassified and made public on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, was angry, according to a report.

"It is impossible that the whistleblower is a hero and I’m not. And I will be the hero! These morons—when this is over, I will be the hero," Giuliani said while "nearly shouting" at an Atlantic journalist.

"Anything I did should be praised," Giuliani said in the interview.

The anonymous whistleblower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry alleges that Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden -- and the White House sought to cover up the phone conversation between the two world leaders.

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The complaint says Giuliani was a "central figure in this effort," and in a summary of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky released by the White House on Wednesday, Giuliani is mentioned by both leaders.

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"Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you," Trump said on the call, according to the summary. "I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what's happening and he is a very capable guy."

On the call, Trump also asked Zelensky to look into Biden, who Trump has claimed with no proof was involved in a corruption scandal in Ukraine.

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The whistleblower's complaint said that White House officials were "deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Giuliani's circumvention of national security decisionmaking processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between Kyiv and the President."

"If this guy is a whistleblower, then I'm a whistleblower too," Giuliani said in the Atlantic interview. "You should be happy for your country that I uncovered this."

In one of multiple interviews with CNN on Thursday, Giuliani also said, "I should be as sympathetic as a whistleblower. I did my job and now all these people are torturing me."

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