Obvious Truth

A whistleblower is often nothing but a grandstanding gossip. — Anon.

Whistleblower

From Powerline blog

He who cannot be named ... sayeth Chief Justice John Roberts ...

Interesting Timing

That famous phone call between President Trump and the new president of the Ukraine, Zelensky, took place on July 25th of this year. In this call Trump has been accused of trying to diminish his 2020 election opponent Joe Biden. However, Biden did not formally announce that he was running for the presidency until one month later, August 25th ... about the time that the whistleblower was blowing in the ear of Rep. Adam Schiff.

Interesting ...

Headlines

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Report: FBI wants to interview CIA whistleblower

Headlines

Democrats land damning new evidence in impeachment testimony

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FoxNews Wallace: Testimony ‘very damaging’ ...

Ken Starr: ‘No hope for impeachment’

Barr says watchdog report on Russia probe’s origin ‘imminent’

Diplomat reveals Trump discussed Biden probe with EU ambassador day after July 25 Ukraine call

Ginsburg misses Supreme Court testimony with illness ...

Dems block motion to subpoena whistleblower

Israel targets Islamic Jihad leadership, sending message to Iran

UAW adopts anti-corruption reforms amid federal criminal probe

US budget gap hits $1 billion over last 12 months ...

Dems schedule two more closed-door depositions

Exculpatory Evidence

Exculpatory evidence is evidence that tends to show the innocence of the accused.

If someone is on trial and the prosecution withholds exculpatory evidence from defense lawyers, then the defendant is (or should be) found not guilty by reason of prosecutorial misconduct.

Is Adam Schiff not withholding exculpatory evidence in his Impeachment Inquiry hearings? Like the name of the whistleblower?

Questionable

To me, there were at least five questionable elements in the first Impeachment Inquiry hearing yesterday:

1) Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff asserted repeatedly that he doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower! He is clearly lying. For this to be true, Schiff either is not managing his staff ... or he is grossly incompetent. Neither can be true.

2) Before Ambassador Taylor accepted the top job in the Ukraine from SecState Pompeo, he testified he told Pompeo he would resign if we did not continue to support Kiev. If Trump had actually withheld such aid illegally, as Taylor has claimed, how come he didn’t resign? This failing clearly contradicts his testimony or sullies his character.

3) If Trump was forcing the president of the Ukraine into a quid pro quo, how come the president of this country did nothing to investigate its involvement in the 2016 American election ... or the Burisma use of Hunter Biden to influence our policy there? Nothing was done for over six weeks between the infamous phone call and the release of the aid, yet Trump’s supposed threat was not carried out.

4) Adam Schiff interrupted the Republicans at least twice in their questioning of the witnesses. He did not interrupt the Democrats at all. He also refused to hold a vote on calling the whistleblower to testify. Instead, he held a vote on tabling the motion on calling the whistleblower. Very shifty!

5) The Dems are now accusing Trump of (since it must be a high crime) bribery with his withholding of Ukrainian aid awaiting an investigation of 2016 election tampering and general corruption. Isn’t this backwards? Wouldn’t bribery require Trump to be bribed ... not he being the briber? Using this notion, wouldn’t all charity auctions be bribery? Anyway, it sure sounds evil ... and that's what counts.

Afterward ... see: Diplomad’s Comments.

Headlines

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Headlines

White House officials spurn demand to testify in impeachment probe

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Trump rejects offer of written answers from whistleblower

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Headlines

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Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spotted dining together

Democrats see impeachment as landmine for Republican Senate

McConnell dismisses idea of delisting Chinese companies in the US

[Stephen] Miller: President is the whistleblower...

Donald Trump demands meeting with ‘whistleblower’

Bolton undercuts Trump and says North Korea has no desire to give up its nukes

California Governor signs law allowing college athletes to get paid, upending amateur sports

Beijing quietly doubles [Hong Kong] troop levels ...

British referees quitting with more transgenders joining women’s soccer