Is there a list of people to choose from? (Maybe I ought to Google for that rather than asking you.)
Again, The NY Times is reporting that it is a male, career CIA officer who worked at the White House. I doubt the person would be known to any of us.
I don’t know, but Facebook is deleting mentions of Eric Ciaramella.
- Eric Ciaramella
- Dan Coats
- John Bolton
I do not know otherwise
Supposedly, Ciaramella.
He seems a bit young to be the person that everyone would go to, unless there were some real young’uns on the phone call. (How many people were on this thing, that Trump was really dumb enough to talk robbing the Watergate Office Building in front of?) But does seem like the sort who would Whistleblow.
As I’ve noted elsewhere, from the testimony that we have heard, a number of people have said that they went to Bolton saying that they’d heard Trump commit a crime on the phone, and asking him what to do. He quit. Soon following, the whistleblower hit.
Bolton is the type to pull the plug for not getting his way.
Occam’s razor would suggest that there shouldn’t be two different people that everyone went to to ask what to do about the President committing a crime, only one.
But, it’s still weird for someone like Bolton - rather than nameless flunky #37 - to be the whistleblower. Ciaramella is probably the guy, there really must have just been a boatload of people on that call, and my god is Trump an idiot.
And, I will note, Ciaramella is a national hero, looking out for the law.
Should Mr. Ciaramella ever need a place to lay low, I suggest he DM me.
I’ve been wondering that myself…
According to the BBC, at least a dozen:
I’ll go with that! Are any whistle memes circulating?
No matter who the whistleblower is, if they end up getting Jeffrey Epstein’d, no one is going to be blaming Hillary Goddamn Clinton this time!
It doesn’t matter who the whistleblower was. Since others who are not staying anonymous have come forth and said the same thing, no one should care that the WB is not coming forth. The Republicans are bringing him up as part of their smokescreen defense. Don’t be sidetracked by this, it’s totally irrelevant who he is.
Exactly
She’s just that clever.
And she did, after all, travel back in time to force Paul Manafort at gunpoint to work for Russian interests in Eastern Europe, so as to ensnare future Trump - who had not yet announced his candidacy for President and would not for several years - in links to Russia after he won the Presidency from her.
Sadly, she wasn’t smart enough to spring her well-sprung trap during the campaign itself.
I don’t think it’s a smokescreen (or at least, I don’t see how it could serve as one).
The only motive that I can see is to intimidate others out of considering going to Congress and talking about what’s happening in the White House. They need to make sure that it stays a discrete problem and not a flood of problems.
It’s a smokescreen in the same way that “if the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit” was. That is, making people think that something very minor is totally fatal to the prosecution’s case.
Another part of the smokescreen is that Hunter Biden isn’t going to be subpoenaed. What he did or didn’t do was totally irrelevant to what the president did, yet the R’s are making it seem like it’s a critical issue.
That may be part of it too.
It’s QAnon
They are luring Clinton, Pelosi and Schiff into a false sense of security before they break up the pedophile ring once and for all.
4-dimensional chess, sheeple.
I’ve practiced criminal defense for about 3 years now. Cases (especially drug cases) are often brought based on an investigation that began with an unnamed confidential informant. Most times, the information from that informant provides the basis for a search warrant which reveals the incriminating evidence that leads to criminal charges.
Defendants always want to know the name of the informant, but law enforcement never reveals it. Why? Because it is irrelevant to the fact that incriminating evidence has been uncovered, and because the only real motivation for learning the name is to take revenge on the snitch.
What Hunter Biden did was eerily similar to the type of career George W Bush has while HIS daddy was Vice President (in the 80’s)…sort of a slacker with a substance abuse past, getting investors to bail him out (Arbusto) or get him on a board of directors (Harken Energy) for a sinecure.
I’m sure the subject must have come up but I don’t recall any of the talking heads at MSNBC or CNN talking about this lately… if we suppose that we don’t approve of Joe Biden using a little bit of nepotism to help his wayward son along WTF IS IVANKA TRUMP DOING IN THE GODDAMN WHITE HOUSE?
It also occurs to me that it does not matter who the whistleblower is or what their politics are. The only thing a person has to do to become an enemy of Donald Trump is disagree with him. See for example, John McCain, a hero amongst Republicans whose grave is occasionally pissed on by Trump who will forever hold a grudge. As we’ve seen with the recent testimony of people who are definitely not Democrats, other aspects of their character are held up as reasons why they hate Trump and are trying to sabotage him.
However, at the end of the day what the Republicans are forgetting is that it doesn’t matter what the politics of the police are when they catch a bank robber in the act. OJ Simpson’s lawyers were able to turn the OJ Simpson trial into the Mark Fuhrman trial for a while but I doubt Trump will have any such luck. His opponent could be AOC and Bernie Sanders holding hands or it could be the ghosts of Ronnie Reagan and John McCain holding guns and bibles… Trump is still going to talk the same shit about them.
In fact, as a recent article points out, the whistleblower’s actions are routine protocol, not a daring defiant act of sabotage:
Hunter Biden for prez, 2028!
Too soon! 
My father in law has served on a variety of boards and I asked him about that process. Maybe it’s different in the Ukraine but around here, being on the board does not mean they hand you the keys to the kingdom.
As for where I work right now, it’s possible someone could approach me saying that they are on the board and they want to do something sketchy that is actually okay because they are on the board. That still would not give them access to actually do it. I mean maybe that’s just me being savvy to social engineering tactics. You’re on the board? Try not to get any splinters while asking my boss’s boss if you can have the keys to that safe over there.
It would go a long way in restoring my faith in humanity if the whistleblower turns out to be Kelly Ann Conway.