CNN’S “WHISTLEBLOWER” DISCLAIMER

The following segment, describing the “whistleblower” who, Trump opponents hope, will take President Trump down, has been  pulled, verbatim, from Stephen Collinson’s article for (Trump-hating) CNN:

The Washington Post on Wednesday said the complaint referenced a “promise” Trump allegedly made to the unidentified leader. CNN has not confirmed that aspect of the controversy.
The whistleblower didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.
It is hard to know the potential exposure faced by the President.

Not surprisingly – this being CNN – Collinson buried what you just read far down in the article, after first putting as negative a spin on the story as he could.

But, that notwithstanding, what does it tell you?

It tells you that the “whistleblower” didn’t hear this conversation at all, he/she got it second-hand from someone else, whose knowledge of the call, and whose motives in passing it along, are therefore completely unknown.

In other words, it isn’t a “whistleblower” at all, it’s someone who heard something from someone else.

This is supposed to be a credible attack on the President?

If we weren’t talking about Donald Trump, would any serious journalist even think about presenting it to an editor for publication, let alone publish it?

But we are talking about President Trump, aren’t we?  So it has been front-page news for the better part of a week….

…brought to you by the same “journalists” who bristle with indignation if anyone calls them biased.

It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.

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