Monday, September 23, 2019

A hearsay complaint sets off another round of hysteria — even though the law is clearly on the president’s side.

About a month later, an employee of one of our intelligence agencies made a classified complaint to the intelligence community's inspector general Michael Atkinson - the specific allegations aren't yet disclosed - that Trump had violated the law or abused his powers in that conversation.

Atkinson's acceptance of the complaint regarding Trump's conversation with Zelensky is improper.

Trump's conversation with Zelensky was not, as Hillary and the rest insist, an attempt by Trump to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election.

According to news reports of the conversation, Trump offered no quid pro quo in terms of aid that had been stopped because of Ukrainian corruption.

Because the complaint was based on hearsay and not direct knowledge, it's entirely likely that it is a put-up job by a Trump adversary.

We need to know the identity of the complainant - and the relationship the complainant has to people such as Haspel and Brennan - to determine whether it was a political assault on Trump.

Trump's adversarial relationship with the intelligence community is unhealthy for the nation and for his presidency.

https://spectator.org/whistleblowin-in-the-wind/

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