“Former Obama White House staffer R. David Edelman woke up Thursday to a bizarre new reality: Many people on the pro-Trump internet were convinced that he was the anonymous whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment proceedings.
And then the death threats started.”
It would have been bad enough if he had been the real whistleblower, but he isn’t, and could not have been. Nothing in his history matches with the description or situation of the whistleblower. The nutcases who tried to out him are as stupid as they are dangerous.
If you really care, you can probably determine the identity of the real whistleblower with a quick Google search. I don’t know why anyone would care, since (1) it was the ICIG (Michael Atkinson) who determined that the claim was credible and pushed the case forward, (2) the whistleblower has nothing further to offer, and (3) everything he claimed has already been investigated.
Even if the whistleblower was Joe Biden himself, the question of bias is now completely irrelevant, since everything in his complaint is being subjected to scrutiny. But while the identity is not important to the facts of the case, it is important to Trump. If the facts stand alone, unattached to a name, Trump can’t muster any defense because he is completely guilty as charged. His only recourse is to attach the facts to a name, so he can malign and slander the person. From his point of view, that is the smart play. Hell, it’s the only play!
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