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Senate Republicans are questioning the credibility of the whistleblower who filed a complaint that triggered an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, parroting the rhetoric of the White House and Trump's allies in the media.
The questions about the whistleblower's credibility are the latest line of defense against the bombshell report, which focuses on a phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son. The president himself attacked the whistleblower in a closed-door meeting Thursday, calling him close to a spy and suggesting he committed treason.
The whistleblower wrote in the complaint that his concerns were based on conversations with more than half a dozen U.S. officials. The whistleblower further alleged that senior White House officials tried to lock down records of the call to keep quiet the nature of the president's conversation with Zelensky.
But Republicans have argued that because the whistleblower was not personally on the call, he lacks credibility.
Its not actually clear. Hes not really a whistleblower, so its really more hearsay, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Friday. If were talking about someone who actually is not a whistleblower, someone whos only heard it hearsay, then that brings everything into question."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senators-accuse-whistleblower-of-hearsay/ar-AAHWDvY?li=BBnb7Kz
At first glance I thought it said heresy. I could see some Republican using the word.
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)Republicans and Democrats both should demand names of all the federal employees that the WB talked to.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Celerity
(42,643 posts)Ohiogal
(31,658 posts)sure tried their darndest to cover up his report. What does that tell you.
Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)Is that the best defense they have? If so, Trump is toast.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)escape me..'cause I really don't care enough to remember them..hearsay?? - I say to them, you are morally corrupt, ethically challenged, and just exposing your disregard for the US Constitution....got some cheez for your whine....
Cary
(11,746 posts)The whistleblower complaint isn't a court of law, and Orange Hitler himself has admitted everything so the Republicans are morons.
Takket
(21,421 posts)that proves it is not "hearsay"
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The hearsay is pretty well confirmed. But the subject of the complaint.
God they are stupid.