Trump and His Right-Wing Allies Are Losing Their Minds Over the Whistleblower Complaint

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Trump and His Right-Wing Allies Are Losing Their Minds Over the Whistleblower Complaint
The president and other conservatives are going to wild lengths to try to tamp down the latest on the allegations.
Dan Spinelli


The long-anticipated whistleblower complaint that has become a central part of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump was finally released Thursday, and it did not reflect well on the White House.

There was already damning public information thanks to a memo, released Wednesday, detailing what was said during Trump’s July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine, but the whistleblower’s complaint hints at other, similarly troubling conversations and a sprawling White House effort to cover it up. After Trump’s call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky , the whistleblower, a member of the intelligence community whose identity has not been revealed, claims that White House officials moved to “lock down” records of the call and improperly store them in an electronic system reserved for classified information. Crucially, the whistleblower added that this was “not the first time” Trump’s advisers have had to abuse this system to shield evidence of his calls with foreign leaders for political, not security, reasons.

The allegations were deemed “credible” by acting national intelligence director Joseph Maguire and intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, both Trump appointees, but unsurprisingly, its findings were immediately challenged by Trump and his most rabid supporters. Trump fired the first volley Thursday morning from his Twitter feed with an all-caps message that said Democrats were trying to destroy the Republican Party “AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR.” He later deleted the tweet.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/trump-and-his-right-wing-allies-are-losing-their-minds-over-the-whistleblower-complaint/

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1. "Minds"...?

The thing is, this is Trump 101 — when caught, turn the bluster up to 11 and go on the offensive, hoping you can bully your opponents, or at least the media reporting on it, into submission.

That approach has worked, time and time again, both during his business career and his time in office. We can only hope it doesn’t this time as well.