President Donald Trump arrives at Lima Allen
Airport to participate in a tour of Pratt Industries with Australian Prime
Minister Scott Morrison, Sunday, Sept 22, 2019, in Lima, Ohio. (AP Photo/Evan
Vucci)
The unnamed whistleblower whose complaint about President
Donald Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was not
just a CIA agent in the Obama administration, but a member of the team
investigating candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 election, according to Paul
Sperry, a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former D.C. bureau chief
for Investors Business Daily. Ironically, the whistleblower dug up
dirt on Trump from — drumroll, please — Ukraine!
Furthermore, the whistleblower may have a grudge against
Trump, because according to Sperry, he or she lost a job when Trump became
president.
If this report is true, it seriously undermines the
Democrats' narrative of a public servant just doing his or her duty by
reporting untoward — nay, impeachable! — actions taken by the president. If the
whistleblower is guilty of exactly the thing Democrats are accusing Trump of
doing, this house of cards impeachment may collapse.
"The Democrat whistleblower who complained about
Trump digging up dirt in Ukraine was himself helping dig up dirt in Ukraine
against Trump (and Manafort) while working in the Obama White House during 2016
campaign," Sperry tweeted.
He also revealed more about the anonymous figure:
"The whistleblower is a registered Democrat & CIA analyst who was
detailed before the 2016 election to the Obama White House, where he worked on
the NSC's Ukraine desk & met w anti-Trump Ukrainian officials before being
sent packing by the Trump NSC & becoming disgruntled," Sperry tweeted.
So, a Deep State operative who worked with Ukrainian
officials to dig up dirt on Trump during the 2016 election becomes the main
source for Democrats' effort to impeach Trump — for allegedly asking Ukraine to
dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, his likely 2020 challenger.
That's more than a little hypocritical, right?
By the way, I still maintain that Trump hiring Paul
Manafort, the GOP campaign operative who also worked for former Ukrainian Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych — who later worked directly with Russian President
Vladimir Putin — was a key mistake. Investigating Manafort may have been in
Ukraine's interest at the time, and Manafort was Trump's biggest liability when
it came to later debunked claims of Trump-Russia collusion.
Yet if investigations into Manafort are justifiable, how
much more so is an investigation into Hunter Biden, who got a cushy
$50,000-per-month job on the board of the Ukraine gas company Burisma Holdings
while his father was the point person for the Obama administration on Ukraine?
Joe Biden admitted to using a quid pro quo to get Ukraine to fire a prosecutor
whose office was in charge of a Burisma investigation.
The Democrats' hypocrisy on Ukraine reeks to high heaven.
Regardless of whether or not Sperry's reports on the whistleblower are true,
Democrats have pressured the country's prosecutors to investigate Trump and
welcomed Ukrainian dirt on Trump.
In May 2018, Democratic senators sent a letter to Ukraine's prosecutor general,
Yuriy Lutsenko, asking him to reopen investigations into Trump related to the
Robert Mueller probe. They also suggested their support for military aid to
Ukraine was conditional on the investigation into Trump.
In February 2018, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee, told Russian pranksters that he would welcome
dirt on Trump from Ukrainian officials. In the prank call, Schiff
asked about recordings of Russians "discussing the compromising material
on Mr. Trump," and said, "Well obviously we would welcome a chance to
get copies of those recordings." Schiff, who is largely leading the
impeachment inquiry, himself has potentially
troubling ties to Ukraine.
Ukraine is a notoriously corrupt country, and political
parties often accuse the other side of corruption. Such allegations should be
taken with a tremendous grain of salt. For instance, Zelensky came into office
after campaigning against the corruption of former President Petro Poroshenko,
who enjoyed a close relationship with the Obama administration and ties to the
EU.
Ukrainian officials have also tried
to present evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of American Democrats and
their allies in Ukraine, specifically involving foreign meddling against Trump
and for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Naturally, this comes from
officials in Zelensky's administration, accusing former officials in
Poroshenko's administration of working to further American Democrats' untoward
schemes.
Yet Sperry's tweets may offer an early confirmation of
the Zelensky administration's claims. It certainly seems plausible that the
Obama administration, while launching an investigation into Trump's potential
ties to Russia, would have asked for dirt from Ukrainian officials.
Biden has claimed that asking Ukraine to fire the
prosecutor in charge of an investigation into his son's company was all about
fighting corruption. Similarly, Trump has claimed that calling for an
investigation into Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine is all about fighting
corruption. If Sperry is correct, this whistleblower will likely defend
investigating Trump in Ukraine as all about fighting corruption.
How ironic would it be if Trump were impeached for doing
something similar to what the Obama administration did against him during the
2016 campaign?
Follow Tyler O'Neil, the author of this
article, on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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