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“Whistleblower” Is Really Deep State Swamp Donkey
This “whistleblower” complaint is pure garbage. (Read it here yourself.) Who in the hell is this person? We don’t know. We certainly didn’t vote for him for anything. What gives him the right to interfere in US foreign policy? And that’s what this is about. It is an attempt by a deep state swamp creature, with the aid of the fake news, Democrats, and of course NeverTrumpers, to prevent Donald Trump from performing the normal duties of the office of the president. These people still haven’t gotten over the fact that their preferred candidate lost in 2016. They have not accepted that Trump is president.
The leaker, not whistleblower, writes in his complaint that he did not listen to the July 25 phone call between Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy and had not seen the transcript. So he knows nothing about the call, at all. But he describes it as having happened “early in the morning,” a totally unnecessary description for a call that started at 9AM. Is that early? Not really. But describing it as “early in the morning” somehow makes it sound suspect, shady, suspicious. He then goes on to cite, for several pages, various news items about Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s tweets, and appearances by both Trump and Guiliani on Fox News. In other words, he has no knowledge of anything and is using publicly available information.
The so-called complaint also states that President Trump supposedly conveyed to Ukraine that he wouldn’t meet with Zelenskyy, who was sworn in as president on May 20, 2019, “until he saw how Zelenskyy ‘chose to act’ in office.” Seriously. This is considered whistleblowing? Who in the hell is this swamp monster who thinks he gets to control how the president — any president — of the United States acts with foreign leaders? It’s up to him whether a president meets with a new foreign counterpart sooner or later? He gets to decide what criteria the president uses to initiate a meeting?
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is testifying before Rep. Pencil Neck Schiff’s committee this morning. In his opening statement, Maguire said that the “complaint” did not meet the statutory requirements of the Whistleblower Protection Act because it was about the president, who is not in the intelligence community, and did not cover anything else (such as funding for intelligence gathering) that the DNI has authority over. Maguire nevertheless, sadly, stated he believed the “whistleblower” acted in good faith, and claimed, hilariously, that the intelligence community has honor and integrity and would never leak anything. Ho, ho, ho.
Maguire seemed to me to be an honorable man with integrity (he served in the Navy for more than 30 years) who’s unprepared to handle the deep corruption within our intelligence services. It seems to me that he should soon enjoy a well-deserved retirement. Trump needs a DNI who not only has personal honor and integrity, but is not blind to the scurrilous abuses of power that have gone on in the intelligence agencies.
We should start by exposing the leaker, firing him, and prosecuting him. He did not act in good faith and did not file a legitimate whistleblower complaint.
It would be a very dangerous precedent if any employee of the executive branch could abuse the Whistleblower Protection act to file bogus complaints based on publicly available information over policy disagreements.
It is to my millennial nephew staying with me. On weekends or holidays I am lucky to see him before noon. And boy does he groan about getting up early to get to his job by its 9:00 am starting time.
So, yeah, to a certain class of people 9:00 am is the crack of dawn. I could see hyper-hysterical types that get set off by rumors they get told by a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend about the President falling into that category.
President Trump should have his intel and law enforcement chiefs read and write a report in which they acknowledge reading and affirm the Church Committee findings in full. Then ask what evidence proves the current crew morally superior to their Vietnam and Civil Rights era predecessors. Then ask just how many years they believe it does take for institutional rot to set back in.
Max,
My sources have revealed a photo taken by a surveillance camera of the whistleblower. This will be a fabulous Ricochet scoop. HOLD THE PRESSES!
Get EJ to digitally hose him down so we can make the ID.
Regards,
Jim
This deflection won’t fly because of the Trump appointed IG that was responsible for taking the whistleblower complaint to the next level. And of course, the memo that Trump himself has now released, which seals the deal. Trump can’t constantly be surrounded by loyalists, which is tough, I’m sure. He just recently fired Bolton for speaking up too much, and evidently is trying to have Guliani take on “foreign policy” work. Now you want the DNI to “retire”, even though he himself is only a temp, taking over for another guy that resigned. And you want the whistleblower fired. Bottom line….a president can’t always be surrounded by lackeys. Thats a good thing….and it’ll make hiring people really tough for Trump.
As I said elsewhere on Rico, I read the transcript. I don’t see any quid pro quo. There is an appeal to look into a crime of which the previous US administration had a quid pro quo to shove under the carpet. It was an appeal to right an injustice. The quid pro quo happened under the Obama administration of which Joe Biden profited from. This is pure garbage.
The one good thing it does, it sinks Joe Biden’s campaign. He’s toast.
It will be Trump against Warren.
I just heard some really good analysis on Breitbart News that losing Biden really kills the Democrat Black vote. It doesn’t take much, either. On top of that, Wall Street is completely freaked about Warren. They may support Trump.
Maguire is the acting DNI. My point was that he should not become the permanent DNI. The IG lacked the authority to do anything about the “complaint” because it wasn’t really a complaint. So he passed it on to his boss, the acting DNI. Maguire also lacked authority to act on it, so took it to the Office of Legal Counsel, which does have the authority within the executive branch to determine if something is covered by executive privilege. OLC only has the authority, though, it should be noted, because it is delegated by the president. All authority in the executive branch is the president’s.
Critics of Donald Trump do not think he has the right to execute the duties of his office because they do not accept that he is the president.
That was a collection of half truths and full falsehoods.
The transcript of the call has fully supported the content of the accusation. We do not know this person precisely because their identity is protected by law.
Based on content of the call transcript, the whistle blower’s complaint is accurate. It was accurate enough to refer to the DOJ, who declined to investigate as they found no issues with campaign finance.
The acting DNI not sending this forward due to executive privilege at this point seems weak. The whistle blower law was put in place to prevent the executive branch from avoiding appropriate legislative oversight.
He’s not doing his job, thats the whole point. What part of that call actually benefited US foreign policy in anyway? He’s on a call with a foreign leader who’s embroiled in a hot war, and all he wants to talk about is 2016 election conspiracies and Biden and Rudi. That s not “executing the duties of his office”, thats campaign strategizing. He should rightfully be prevented from that.
In fact, what part of any of these recent Trump debacles is “executing his job” and has helped America in anyway?
a) Posting racist tweets about “sending back” 4 congresswomen. Led to 3 mass shootings in next 2 weeks.
b) Firing Bolton for objecting to a personal US meeting with Taliban….who then torpedoed the meeting anyway by shockingly….killing people.
c) Spent a week being incapable of admitting tweeting out an old bad hurricane forecast, complete with his own rigged map visual aids
d) Touted the economy and the stock market.
Outside of D)….Trump does virtually nothing to execute his job well, imo. .
Nonsense.
I’m so sorry the Great Big Ugly Man came up and tied his horse to you!
No, it really didn’t. Quote the passage you’re relying on and specify – without paraphrasing – the infraction.
Or, don’t. I’ve heard your argument, and you haven’t really responded to counterarguments. So I’m not sure this is going anywhere. See you at the ballot box, one way or the other.
No, that’s the point in your head. The Dems have a much different point.
Besides, who says that all calls need to benefit the US foreign policy according to your criteria? Who says the benefit must always be direct and immediate? Talk about quid pro quo.
Finally, not doing his job according to you. Ok, you are free to think whatever you want. That doesn’t make it a high crime or a misdemeanor.
Speculation and bile. Do you have anything else?
Unfortunately, as one looks back through history, a fact of life is that kings, presidents, senators, high-powered business executives, generals, etc. are primarily surrounded by lackeys. That’s the way it has always been and will probably always be in every country down through the ages. It’s tough to fight human nature.
There is no mention of an infraction. A whistle blower is not limited to things which are only an “infraction”.
The complaint stated that Trump had asked the Ukraine to look into Biden. The “transcript” (and it isn’t really a transcript) supports that.
Ok, if the subject of the accusation isn’t an infraction – then why are we talking about it negatively to the point that they’re considering impeachment? Why are we talking about it at all? What is your beef, and what do you think should happen about it?
If “infraction” isn’t the right word, then what word should we use?
So, no part of that call was actually beneficial to the US. Thanks for admitting that. Now do likewise for any other antics I listed in recent months. Feel free to list something good/not crazy he’s accomplished for America in recent months that somebody tried to stop him from doing.
The whistleblower is a front for a cabal of moles who have burrowed into the White House and are trying to bring down the president. Meanwhile, Democrats still have not articulated which of the President’s actions are improper, let alone constitute a high crime or misdemeanor. The suggestion that the president asked a foreign power to interfere in an election is laughable. The suggestion that there was an illicit quid pro quo is not supported by the transcript. The suggestion that all of this was a campaign finance violation has already been refuted.
Who are the moles?
I didn’t admit anything. I asked you questions which you didn’t answer.
Tweets were not racist. They did not lead to 3 mass shootings. That’s just complete nonsense. You don’t know why he fired Bolton, but he has the right to fire any of his employees for any reason so it doesn’t matter anyway. The hurricane forecast was current when he tweeted it. The economy and stock market are doing great. You are certainly entitled to your own opinions. I just respectfully disagree.
If you don’t think Trump is beneficial to the US, and you obviously don’t, then your recourse is to vote for someone else next year. The president, whether that’s Barack Obama or Donald Trump, gets to decide how to interact with another world leader. It’s not up to unelected deep state swamp donkeys.
Ding Ding Ding.
Never Trumpers as well. It’s nauseating.
IMO, this is the biggest bubble the world has ever seen and Trump has little to do with it. The only question is if it pops before or after the election.
Politicians always get blamed for the busts and take credit for the booms, but for over two decades bad central banking has been running the show.
When it pops, they are going to blame Trump and Brexit and so forth.
It’s outrageous.
Along with lying media, Democrats, and Never Trumpers. RUSSIA!
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This is must read. It’s short. Sean Davis in the New York Post. Trump got elected fair and square but we can’t have that.
The Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint looks just like ‘Steele Dossier 2.0’
https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/the-trump-ukraine-whistleblower-complaint-looks-just-like-steele-dossier-2-0/
Impeachment does not require a law to be broken. There is no specific statute for abuse of power. Impeachment is a political question.
And that is where the democrats problem comes in.
I’ve listened closely to all of the discussions about this. You have to list specific things that prove he’s damaging The Republic. You can’t just call him a lousy administrator, or say he’s bad for morale.
It also has to be so serious you can’t wait for the next election.
It’s political in every other sense, though.
Sure he can. Orange Man bad, you know. That’s all it takes. Execution first, then the trial. If he is found innocent afterwards, too bad.
John Hinderaker asks: Was the “Whistleblower” Part of a Plan?