'This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected,' said GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, indirectly rebuking claims made by President Donald Trump and his allies.
A prominent Senate Republican came to the defense Tuesday of the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump pressuring a foreign leader to investigate a political foe, as Trump and his GOP allies have continued to criticize the anonymous individual.
Grassley's remarks indirectly rebuked recent comments made by Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill that the whistleblower may have broken protocol in reporting Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and that the whistleblower's identity should be exposed.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley talks to reporters as he heads to the U.S. Capitol for the weekly Republican policy luncheon March 5 in Washington, DC.Trump has said this week that the White House was"trying to find out" about the whistleblower, in addition to other unknown people who provided that person with information.
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