I could be a whistleblower. So could anyone with a TV

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I could be a whistleblower. So could anyone with a TV.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-could-be-a-whistleblower-so-could-anyone-with-a-tv/2019/10/21/174f02bc-f441-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

I would like to file a whistleblower complaint. With whom, I don’t know exactly. But the information I have demands to be heard.

It will document how President Trump has set policy for his own personal gain and how senior White House aides have been in on the scam all along.

Not that it really matters, but my complaint isn’t based on “hearsay.” I have witnessed these actions firsthand. You might wonder how. After all, I don’t work in the White House or on Trump’s legal team; in fact, I’ve never met some of the people involved.

I haven’t been bugging presidential phone calls or meetings. I likewise don’t work at the Internal Revenue Service or for Trump’s accounting firm. But I’m a direct witness nonetheless, and I have the goods. You know why? Because I, uh, own a TV.

Repeatedly and often in real time, Trump has told me — as well as any other members of the public who happened to have left the television on while cooking dinner or jogging on the treadmill — that he’s been pushing foreign leaders to take actions for his own private benefit.

I first witnessed this in 2016, when, during a live-televised news conference, then-candidate Trump asked “Russia, if you’re listening,” to hack into his political rival Hillary Clinton’s emails.

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