Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump

. . . "the CIA “whistleblower” was identified by Real Clear Investigations as one Eric Ciaramella, an Obama administration alum who is linked to many top Democrats.
Real Clear Investigations  "Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous “whistleblower" who touched off Trump's impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues.
"Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues. And both expressed anger over Trump’s new “America First” foreign policy, a sea change from President Obama’s approach to international affairs.
" 'Just days after he was sworn in they were already talking about trying to get rid of him,” said a White House colleague who overheard their conversation.
" 'They weren’t just bent on subverting his agenda,” the former official added. “They were plotting to actually have him removed from office.”
"Misko left the White House last summer to join House impeachment manager Adam Schiff’s committee, where sources say he offered “guidance” to the whistleblower, who has been officially identified only as an intelligence officer in a complaint against Trump filed under whistleblower laws. Misko then helped run the impeachment inquiry based on that complaint as a top investigator for congressional . . ."



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