Thursday, September 26, 2019

The "whistleblower" wants to criminalize justice

We now have the document filed by the "whistleblower". The first thing to note is that there is not one substantiated fact in the entire complaint.  The person writing the complaint witnessed nothing and they don't provide the names of the people who supposedly did.

We know that government employees are eager to lie in order to get Trump into trouble.  Remember when the NYT reported over and over that when FBI director Comey testified to Congress he'd say that Trump had lied when Trump said that Comey said that Trump wasn't under investigation?  We were told that sources in the know were saying this. But when Comey actually testified he said that he had in fact told Trump that.

Hence there is no reason to believe the whistleblower isn't also lying to hurt a President we know they don't like given that they admit to no direct knowledge of any of the information they are claiming to be true.

Of course now that we have the transcript the people who were there have spoken and they've said that the whistleblower is wrong; Trump didn't push Ukraine to start a new investigation or demand that they do so, unlike the three Democrat Senators who did demand the Ukraine restart investigations into people who had worked with Trump.

But even if the whistleblower isn't lying the DOJ has investigated and determined that no laws were broken.

Which makes sense.  When one reads the transcript it's obvious that there is no quid pro quo for reopening the Biden investigation. Further it's the President's duty to undo illegal damage done by corrupt politicians to America's foreign policy.

By coercing Ukraine to abandon an investigation just because his son was involved Joe Biden damaged our relationship with Ukraine. The investigation he ended let powerful and corrupt Ukrainians as well as Hunter Biden off the hook.

The whistleblower doesn't seem bothered by this.

But they do seem bothered by the idea that anyone would investigate Joe Biden's gross misuse of his power to corrupt the Ukraine legal system or why Hunter Biden was getting paid as much as $83k a month even though he had no relevant experience.  The whistleblower seems to think that finding out why Hunter Biden made so much money after his father was appointed the Obama administrations point person for Ukraine is unimportant.

What's really odd is that the whistleblower lists Trump's interest in determining who actually hacked into the DNC computer as somehow bad.  The computers in question were never examined by the FBI and were apparently transported to Ukraine.  What may be piquing Trump's interest is the fact that the company that the US Intel community trusted and which the DNC hired is owned by Ukrainians.  Given that Ukraine and Russia were, and are, at war that would give Ukrainian nationals good reason to try and pin the hack on Russia.

But of course if the computers were examined and the conclusion of the Ukraine company, Crowdstrike, were confirmed it would bolster Hillary's claims which would be a good thing for Hillary not Trump. Yet the whistleblower acts as though he knows that any investigation would be bad for Hillary.

One amusing aspect of the whistleblowers complaint is that supposedly Trump tried to limit access to the contents of the call. With dishonest people like the whistleblower around that would make perfect sense.

After all we now know that nothing bad happened according to Trump, the president of the Ukraine, the transcript, and the DOJ so the world would have a better place if this whistleblower hadn't made up a story.


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