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Anti-Trump ‘Whistleblower’ Worked With DNC Operative Sought Dirt On Trump From Ukrainian Officials
Thefederalist.com ^ | October 30, 2019 By Madeline Osburn

Posted on 11/01/2019 6:17:30 AM PDT by Red Badger

A new report from RealClearInvestigations reveals that the anti-Trump “whistleblower” who prompted the current impeachment proceedings against President Trump is a registered Democrat who worked with a Democratic National Committee opposition researcher who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

Federal documents reveal that the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, previously worked in the Obama administration with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan. RealClear reports that Ciaramella remained there into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the National Security Council, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017.

He then “left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia,” RealClearInvestigations reported. Ciaramella is a Yale graduate who reportedly speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and Arabic.

Officials told RealClear that Ciaramella strongly opposed Trump’s foreign policy.

“He didn’t exactly hide his passion with respect to what he thought was the right thing to do with Ukraine and Russia, and his views were at odds with the president’s policies,” a former senior White House official said.

Politico reported on a Ukrainian-American woman who consulted for the Democratic National Committee, and “met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia.” The woman, Alexandra Chalupa, was paid $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016 by the DNC.

Ciaramella invited Chalupa to meetings and events at the White House, RealClear reported, documents confirming one occasion in November 2015. She also visited the White House with Ukrainian lobbyists seeking aid from Obama.

Chalupa said she shared her findings with both the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Politico reports that “Chalupa told a senior DNC official that, when it came to Trump’s campaign, ‘I felt there was a Russia connection.'” Chalupa also said that the Ukrainian embassy worked directly with reporters digging for Trump-Russia ties.

Before Ciaramella filed his “whistleblower complaint,” he sought “guidance” from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff and other Obama-era NSC staff recently employed by Schiff’s office. Before this “guidance” was public knowledge, the Chairman was adamant on hearing the “whistleblower” testimony.

“We need to speak with the whistleblower,” Schiff and other Democrats proclaimed. As soon as Ciaramella’s partisanship and collaboration was discovered, Schiff and the Democrats flipped to preventing the testimony from happening and moving their hearings behind closed doors. Madeline is a staff editor at the Federalist and the producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Follow her on Twitter.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: ciaramella; cultureofcorruption; trumpukraine
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1 posted on 11/01/2019 6:17:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Eric Ciaramella, NOT A WHISTLE BLOWER. HE WAS A SPY!!!!!


2 posted on 11/01/2019 6:19:53 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: Red Badger

There is no whistle blower because there is no whistle

The premise is a lie


3 posted on 11/01/2019 6:20:57 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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TRUMP.RELEASED.THE.TRANCSRIPT.


4 posted on 11/01/2019 6:21:19 AM PDT by gibsonguy (BL2)
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To: mplc51

You know what I find amazing about all this? They can’t find a patsy to do their dirty work! Even though TDS is rampant in Certain factions of our society, the only guys who keep falling into the trap of trying to down Trump politically with legal tricks are the long-term career partisans.


5 posted on 11/01/2019 6:22:22 AM PDT by z3n
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To: mplc51

Yup. He was upset because he is about to be outed and go to jail for domestic espionage.


6 posted on 11/01/2019 6:22:44 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: Red Badger

https://www.whitehouse.gov/.../09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf

Copy of the transcript.

LT Col Clown boy, the Democrat “star witness” this week admitted in his testimony the transcript is complete and accurate.His boss just testified today there is nothing at all illegal or improper in the call.

In any sane world this kills the Democrat Fascist clown show in the US House dead. But the DC Swamp, and their mindless toadies in the Fake News, don’t live in a sane world anymore.

It now turns out this “impeachment” scam is all about the DC Swamp criminals trying to divert attention off the AG current criminal investigation. The “whistle blower” is one of the prime agents in the original “Russian collusion” fraud.
No wonder they were all panicked by the Ukrainian call, they knew the noose was being slipped over their heads.


7 posted on 11/01/2019 6:26:01 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

That’s why every meeting is in secret.

They do not want the American people to know what they did and are still doing in an effort to save their sorry carcasses from prison......................


8 posted on 11/01/2019 6:29:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: mplc51

From the article. ..
“Ciaramella invited Chalupa to meetings and events at the White House, RealClear reported, documents confirming one occasion in November 2015. She also visited the White House with Ukrainian lobbyists seeking aid from Obama.”

Now things are beginning to make sense as to why the 0bammy WH. Would refuse to release the visitors log to the press. 0bammy had to conceal the fact that he was doing very bad things to US citizens.


9 posted on 11/01/2019 6:33:40 AM PDT by redshawk
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To: Red Badger

MSM did not report this because the CIA did not want it out. The CIA cuts off leaking to media who tick them off. Its the CIA, Brennan’s people who are behind all these attacks on Trump. The CIA leakers control DC media by controlling who they leak to. When you hear the government lifers are behind repute, that means you can’t question the CIA.


10 posted on 11/01/2019 6:34:36 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Red Badger

WAKE UP, REPUBLICANS!!!!!!.....

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS BEEN CONDUCTING A SPYING OPERATION, AND ENGAGED IN OUTRIGHT COLLUSION AND ESPIONAGE WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AGAINST A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! WHEN ARE THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS GOING TO CONDUCT HEARINGS AND CRIMINAL REFERRALS???????????????????


11 posted on 11/01/2019 6:37:03 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Red Badger

Defund ALL our secret police agencies. They have no place in a free country and were not authorized by the Constitution. All department administrators of those 17 agencies, an insane number of dangerous agencies, should be investigated for treason and crimes against the Constitution.


12 posted on 11/01/2019 6:37:38 AM PDT by txrefugee
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There is more going on in Ukraine than we know. I wonder if some very high level, very powerful, people all interconnected and with ties to people in Ukraine and this is why they are fighting so hard to protect the people involved. The people involved include the US intelligence agencies.

I pray to God that we learn the facts and that this is all made public so as voters we can know the failings of our government and clean it up. Otherwise, there isn't hope for this country.

Maybe a reckoning is right around the corner and people in the future will look back as this being a make or break point for United States of America just like the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

13 posted on 11/01/2019 6:37:38 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: mplc51; Red Badger
Amen and amen.... spot-on summary.


14 posted on 11/01/2019 6:39:45 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: LibFreeUSA

President Trump was never asleep. He knows it is either us and him or them

He will kill them. He knows it

What’s more important, they know it. The event in the House yesterday is proof of that knowledge.


15 posted on 11/01/2019 6:41:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: LibFreeUSA
....Sessions , Wray, Barr, & their staffs will be right on this ...

/sarc

Packs of spies and sedionists as far as the eye can see.

16 posted on 11/01/2019 6:43:36 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Red Badger

Way past time for AG Barr and Durham to investigate this scandal with
this spy.


17 posted on 11/01/2019 6:43:45 AM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: dhs12345

Even if ALL IS MADE PUBLIC, the whole story and all the actors, and what they did, the Left will ignore it and carry on like no big deal.

The MSM will shrug their collectivist shoulders and move on to the next shiny object.

Even if ALL the top players are indicted, arrested, convicted and sentenced to long prison terms, nothing will change.

The left is ideology 24/7/365.

A few losses to collateral damage here and there mean nothing to them.................


18 posted on 11/01/2019 6:44:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger

Whistle blower translation = leaker, spy, political oppo researcher, partisan, hack.


19 posted on 11/01/2019 6:45:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Biden has admitted to twisting Ukraine's arm for a quid pro quo, the very thing the Dems and their propaganda media arm want to impeach Trump for, and yet... Biden is still a Dem candidate for the Presidential nomination!!

If demanding a quid pro quo was so important to the Dems and their media, Biden would be long gone. To be a liberal, it is required to be a hypocrite!

20 posted on 11/01/2019 6:48:38 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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