They were out to get the new President – right from the start.
Over here at Real Clear Investigations investigative reporter Paul Sperry – the journalist who uncovered and printed the name of the alleged whistleblower – has come up with another bombshell. The headline:
Whistleblower Was Overheard in ’17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump
The alleged whistleblower was identified a few days back by Sperry as one Eric Ciaramella, the “CIA analyst” who had been assigned to the Obama White House. Sperry described him this way:
“Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”
Now Sperry reports this, bold print for emphasis supplied:
“Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous ‘whistleblower’ who touched off Trump’s impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues.
Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues. And both expressed anger over Trump’s new “America First” foreign policy, a sea change from President Obama’s approach to international affairs.
‘Just days after he was sworn in they were already talking about trying to get rid of him,’ said a White House colleague who overheard their conversation.
‘They weren’t just bent on subverting his agenda,’ the former official added. ‘They were plotting to actually have him removed from office.’
Misko left the White House last summer to join House impeachment manager Adam Schiff’s committee, where sources say he offered “guidance” to the whistleblower, who has been officially identified only as an intelligence officer in a complaint against Trump filed under whistleblower laws. Misko then helped run the impeachment inquiry based on that complaint as a top investigator for congressional Democrats.
Prediction here? This will not end well for The Swamp…
Two former co-workers said they overheard Ciaramella and Misko, close friends and Democrats held over from the Obama administration, discussing how to ‘take out,’ or remove, the new president from office within days of Trump’s inauguration. These co-workers said the president’s controversial Ukraine phone call in July 2019 provided the pretext they and their Democratic allies had been looking for.
‘They didn’t like his policies,’ another former White House official said. ‘They had a political vendetta against him from Day One.’”
Notice anything here?
As with the tale of the FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, not to mention the now-fired FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and others at the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA, what is vividly on display in this latest Sperry investigation is a Washington bureaucracy of ruling class elites determined to take out the duly-elected President of the United States. Why? Because they believe that they and they alone have a God-given right to run the country. elections be damned.
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This is, as I have written in my book Swamp Wars, exactly the “Swamp” of Washington at work. In this case the ruling class elites cannot abide Donald Trump. They view his supporters, rank and file Americans, just as Hillary Clinton described them in her 2016 campaign. Said Hillary of the 63 million Americans who would vote for Trump:
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
It is precisely this ruling class elitist attitude that produced what Sperry describes of NSC staffers Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko. They – and they certainly were not alone – “had a political vendetta against him from Day One.” They wanted to “take him out.”
So what Americans are witnessing on the floor of the United States Senate this moment is nothing more or less than that political vendetta designed to take out the President the Swamp despises.
Lifting, as it were, a middle finger to the American people they so despise.
Prediction here? This will not end well for The Swamp.
