Democrats and the media have seemingly shot themselves in the foot doing what they have accused Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul of doing: naming the whistleblower.
It was assumed by numerous media outlets that the justice declined to answer the question because it named the whistleblower who raised red flags about the phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The problem with Paul's question not being read was that a whistleblower was never mentioned.
A frustrated Paul decided to read his question to the media later Thursday, and it was notably missing anything resembling the phrase "The name of the whistleblower is."
"I can tell you that my question made no reference to any whistleblower or any kind of person or a complaint from a whistleblower. I will read you the question so it can be made part of the public record," Paul said.
"The president's team says they have no knowledge of the whistleblower. I think it was an incorrect finding to not allow a question that makes no reference. It means that anybody ever said might have been a whistleblower could never be discussed in a proceeding."
Paul neither mentioned a whistleblower nor claimed that one of those two men was the whistleblower - but the fire with which Democrats attacked the senator over it says that they believe one of them is.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/now-know-question-justice-roberts-censored-media-lied-didnt-name-whistleblower
It was assumed by numerous media outlets that the justice declined to answer the question because it named the whistleblower who raised red flags about the phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The problem with Paul's question not being read was that a whistleblower was never mentioned.
A frustrated Paul decided to read his question to the media later Thursday, and it was notably missing anything resembling the phrase "The name of the whistleblower is."
"I can tell you that my question made no reference to any whistleblower or any kind of person or a complaint from a whistleblower. I will read you the question so it can be made part of the public record," Paul said.
"The president's team says they have no knowledge of the whistleblower. I think it was an incorrect finding to not allow a question that makes no reference. It means that anybody ever said might have been a whistleblower could never be discussed in a proceeding."
Paul neither mentioned a whistleblower nor claimed that one of those two men was the whistleblower - but the fire with which Democrats attacked the senator over it says that they believe one of them is.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/now-know-question-justice-roberts-censored-media-lied-didnt-name-whistleblower
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