Another example of how exposed the White House is on the Ukraine scandal and its cover-up efforts
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the Trump team’s sturdier defenses against the administration-enveloping scandal in Ukraine is that the whistle-blower who broke open the cover-up effort had only secondhand information on the president’s behavior, which Trump, Lindsey Graham, and others derided as “hearsay.
On Friday, intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson informed lawmakers that he had verified the account of a second whistle-blower with firsthand information. The second intelligence official reportedly has more information than the first whistle-blower, and emerged in Atkinson’s search to corroborate the information of the first.
As this second intelligence official considers coming forward with a complaint, another whistle-blower has sought legal representation from Mark Zaid, who is an attorney on the first whistle-blower’s legal team. Speaking with the Washington Post, Zaid said he wasn’t sure if the second whistle-blower was the same person that Atkinson verified, and that he or she “doesn’t need to” file an official complaint, as they have “first-hand knowledge that supported the first whistle-blower.
Showing just how exposed the White House is on this scandal, another lawyer on the first whistle-blower’s legal team added Sunday that they were representing “multiple whistle-blowers.” With a handful of intelligence officials coming forward to report the president’s behavior, it’s less likely that the Trump administration will be able to shoot down their concerns, though it won’t stop the president from trying: Over the weekend, he tweeted about the second whistle-blower “coming in from the Deep State, also with second hand info” after meeting with “Shifty,” his term of endearment for House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff.
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