Republican senators accuse whistleblower of 'hearsay'
Senate Republicans are questioning the credibility of the whistleblower who filed a complaint that triggered an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, parroting the rhetoric of the White House and Trump's allies in the media.
The questions about the whistleblower's credibility are the latest line of defense against the bombshell report, which focuses on a phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son. The president himself attacked the whistleblower in a closed-door meeting Thursday, calling him “close to a spy” and suggesting he committed treason.
The whistleblower wrote in the complaint that his concerns were based on conversations with more than half a dozen U.S. officials. The whistleblower further alleged that senior White House officials tried to “lock down” records of the call to keep quiet the nature of the president's conversation with Zelensky.
But Republicans have argued that because the whistleblower was not personally on the call, he lacks credibility.
“It’s not actually clear. He’s not really a whistleblower, so it’s really more hearsay,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Friday. “If we’re talking about someone who actually is not a whistleblower, someone who’s only heard it hearsay, then that brings everything into question."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senators-accuse-whistleblower-of-hearsay/ar-AAHWDvY?li=BBnb7Kz
At first glance I thought it said heresy. I could see some Republican using the word.
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escape me..'cause I really don't care enough to remember them..hearsay?? - I say to them, you are morally corrupt, ethically challenged, and just exposing your disregard for the US Constitution....got some cheez for your whine....
