Donald Trump just gave something away about his whistleblower scandal
With his Ukraine treason scandal getting uglier for him by the hour, Donald Trump resorted to breaking out a sort of nuclear option. Unable to defend his own criminal actions, Trump falsely accused the whistleblower of “spying” on him. In the process, Trump just gave something away about the whistleblower scandal, and it could soon become important.
Donald Trump is now going scorched earth on this whistleblower, to the point of committing a new felony by falsely accusing the whistleblower of a felony. Trump is clearly willing to say and do anything possible to try to discredit this person. Here’s the thing. The ugliest thing Trump could do to the whistleblower right now would be to publicly expose his or her identity. It would create a vicious feeding frenzy and turn the person’s life into a nightmare. Yet he hasn’t done it. This tells us that either Trump doesn’t know who the whistleblower is, or he’s afraid of liberating the whistleblower by putting his or her identity out there.
Think about it. Whenever people in government have tried to expose Trump’s criminal scandals, Trump has responded by trying to blow up their lives. He puts their names front and center. He goes on and on about their personal lives. He makes inappropriate remarks about their spouses. He takes people like Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe, who weren’t really known outside of political circles, and tries to turn them into household names.
Yet for all of Donald Trump’s vicious and unhinged and criminal attacks on this whistleblower, he hasn’t put the person’s name out there. Maybe he simply doesn’t know who the person is. Or maybe he fears that if he exposes this person’s identity and sets their life on fire anyway, the whistleblower will have no reason not to go publicly testify in front of Congress next week.
