President tweets his frustration at Ukraine scandal as former vice-president tries to maintain focus on 2020 campaignSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.52pm BST Trump’s tweet alleging (without evidence) that the whistleblower fabricated his sources could raise concerns about the president protecting the person’s identity, as a CNBC reporter pointed out.This raises an important question: does the president believe he has the authority to name this person publicly, or does he agree the person is entitled to whistleblower protection under the law? https://t.co/XM5vcwv5sN 2.49pm BST Trump has now jumped from the argument that the whistleblower complaint represented “secondhand information,” as he first argued yesterday, to claiming that the information may have been entirely fabricated.Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all. In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her? A partisan operative? Continue reading...
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