Republicans need to hear from the whistleblower in Senate trial to expose impeachment as a sham
by Eddie Scarry
| December 13, 2019 02:17 PM
Liberals have mostly stopped repeating the lie that the career government bureaucrat, sometimes lovingly referred to as the impeachment’s “whistleblower,†has a right to anonymity. That's because it’s now taken for granted that he won’t be needed in the upcoming Senate trial.
But that's wrong. His identity is, in fact, crucial to understanding exactly how and why President Trump’s conversation with a foreign leader, during which nothing criminal took place, became public and kicked off an attempted removal of the president.
The House hearings have already gone over all of the substance of the phone call, why Ukraine matters, why Trump delayed the military aid, and why Joe Biden and his adult son Hunter were involved. But now we need to know how we got here and why a CIA analyst, who had no first-hand information about the phone call, felt it was his place to run to House Democrats with gossip that he must have figured would get the impeachment ball rolling.
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