The whistleblower who touched off the powder keg of Ukraine scandal revelations and resulting impeachment inquiry has become increasingly irrelevant to the investigations, likely to his relief.
According to the Washington Post, Democrats now feel that that initial complaint has been sufficiently bolstered by Trump administration officials’ hearings that the whistleblower’s in-person testimony — and, potentially, unmasking — is redundant.
Republicans, on the other hand, are rabid as ever in their desire to reveal the whistleblower’s identity, one tactic in a broader attempt to undermine the inquiry.
Earlier this week, a mob of House Republicans stormed a SCIF where testimony related to the impeachment inquiry was taking place in an attempt to spread their specious argument that these proceedings are beyond the pale in their lack of transparency. In reality, many Republicans sit on all of the committees spearheading the inquiry and are included in the testimonies.
It’s been reported that there are 47 RepubliCONS in House Impeachment Committees…so yesterday’s reckless and dangerous to national security stunt was irresponsible and unethical.
That said, the Dems is right in protecting the identity of the WBs because we had the likes of Nunes (with his midnight run to the WH) and Burr (yes, the senator who appears to be working bi-partisan but actually was informing the WH per Mueller Report) who “INFORMS” the WH!
If the Republicans in Congress don’t have someone to insult, smear and generally ruin their lives, they have nothing. Donnie and Barr have shown that it doesn’t matter how irrelevant you MUST whine and snivel about AMERICAN citizens, corporations, government entities to deflect from the utter devastation these aholes are inflicting on this country.
Twitler of course is bitching about it in his pinned tweet:
Guess he can’t grasp the concept that when a person calls 9-1-1 to report that they just saw bank robbers run into a bank with guns, that person quite often doesn’t end up going to court to testify, because the prosecutors have all the evidence that they need already.
ETA: Some great responses to his post…
The Democrats are right to keep the whistleblower away from the Republics. Otherwise the Republican lynch mob that stormed the hearings earlier really would become a lynch mob. Once the Republicans know who, or even where, he is, he has the life expectancy of a snowball in hell.
Meh, those folks are well trained, save your concern for the MAGAts that would be on his tail.
Hmmmm… Maybe he should testify.