{"id":131312,"date":"2019-11-04T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=131312"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:40:53","slug":"whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-had-multiple-contacts-with-other-potus-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=131312","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Whistleblower&#8217; Eric Ciaramella Had Multiple Contacts with Other POTUS Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Attorneys Admit &#8216;Whistleblower&#8217; Had Contacts With Other Presidential Candidates<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has continued to his attacks on the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;impeachment resolution&#8221; proceedings, and in particular the so-called &#8216;whistleblower&#8217; and the irrelevance of his (or her) thoughts and feelings&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; What I said on the phone call with the Ukrainian President is \u201cperfectly\u201d stated.\u00a0<strong>There is no reason to call witnesses to analyze my words and meaning.\u00a0<\/strong>This is just another Democrat Hoax that I have had to live with from the day I got elected (and before!). Disgraceful!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The Whistleblower gave false information &amp; dealt with corrupt politician Schiff. He must be brought forward to testify.\u00a0<\/strong>Written answers not acceptable! Where is the 2nd Whistleblower? He disappeared after I released the transcript. Does he even exist? Where is the informant? Con!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=la1zTa0i\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=la1zTa0i\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=0f2Ee94X 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=0f2Ee94X 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=0f2Ee94X 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=0f2Ee94X 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=0f2Ee94X 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg?itok=la1zTa0i 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/democrat_whistleblower_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"01ec2405-bd88-4af7-a3d2-1aa7ee065e13\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, interestingly, this follows a statement from the attorneys representing the whistleblower acknowledging that their client \u201chas come into contact with presidential candidates from both parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/compassrosepllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_1009_-Statement-Concerning-Bias.pdf\">statement<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In light of the ongoing efforts to mischaracterize whistleblower #1\u2019s alleged \u201cbias\u201d in order to detract from the substance of the complaint, we will attempt to clarify some facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First<\/strong>, our client has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign, or party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second<\/strong>, our client has spent their entire government career in apolitical, civil servant positions in the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third<\/strong>, in these positions our client has come into contact with presidential candidates from both parties in their roles as elected officials \u2013 not as candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth<\/strong>, the whistleblower voluntarily provided relevant career information to the ICIG in order to facilitate an assessment of the credibility of the complaint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifth<\/strong>, as a result, the ICIG concluded \u2013 as is well known \u2013 that the complaint was both urgent and credible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally<\/strong>, the whistleblower is not the story.<\/p>\n<p>To date, virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other sources. For that reason the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>Except the motivations of the whistleblower are relevant, as Dan Bongino noted on Fox this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>There is no Whistleblower. There is someone with an agenda against Donald Trump.<\/strong>\u00a0What he was blowing the whistle on didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0<strong>We have the transcript of the call.<\/strong>\u00a0This is all a farce and no Republican should forget that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/attorneys-admit-whistleblower-had-contacts-other-presidential-candidates\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/attorneys-admit-whistleblower-had-contacts-other-presidential-candidates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys Admit &#8216;Whistleblower&#8217; Had Contacts With Other Presidential Candidates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}