Posted on 01/22/2020 7:15:33 AM PST by edwinland
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.
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A military staffer detailed to the NSC, who was seated directly in front of Ciaramella and Misko during the meeting, confirmed hearing them talk about toppling Trump during their private conversation, which the source said lasted about one minute. The crowd was preparing to get up to leave the room at the time.
“After Flynn briefed [the staff] about what ‘America first’ foreign policy means, Ciaramella turned to Misko and commented, ‘We need to take him out,’ ” the staffer recalled. “And Misko replied, ‘Yeah, we need to do everything we can to take out the president.’ “
Added the military detailee, who spoke on condition of anonymity: “By ‘taking him out,’ they meant removing him from office by any means necessary. They were triggered by Trump’s and Flynn’s vision for the world. This was the first ‘all hands’ [staff meeting] where they got to see Trump’s national security team, and they were huffing and puffing throughout the briefing any time Flynn said something they didn’t like about ‘America First.’ ”
He said he also overheard Ciaramella telling Misko, referring to Trump, ‘We can’t let him enact this foreign policy.’ “
Alarmed by their conversation, the military staffer immediately reported what he heard to his superiors.
“It was so shocking that they were so blatant and outspoken about their opinion,” he recalled. “They weren’t shouting it, but they didn’t seem to feel the need to hide it.”
Thanks...this is something that we all as conservatives come to understand, but I rarely see it spoken...
This demented ciaramella crook needs to go to trial ASAP.
This demented ciaramella crook needs to go to trial ASAP.
I would think that in light of this information, the whistleblower now needs to testify.
Is it currently legal to make threats to kill or do bodily harm in Virginia?
Lol. I sure hope not. I read the bill and it makes zero sense to need it.
Bookmark!
Good thinking!
Thank goodness you were here.
Your list of “Before...they are Leftists” also applies to homsexuals.
I find that largely to be true. There is too much identification with the sex and not with the person, and that doesn’t appear sound or healthy to me.
This is why we need to call witnesses, IMHO
Eyewitness testimony is not useless in a court of law.
It’s one of the best, most reliable kinds of evidence.
True that, but the witness must come forward to be deposed.
Check out Post 12 & 17
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3808939/posts
The DC Pillow Talk is where all of this crap unravels.
Someone knows who is married or sleeping with someone other noteworthy professional....the information loop gets much tighter. Now, the dirty little insider secrets make a difference.
‘We can’t let him enact this foreign policy.’
If all we have is this improbable dialog and an anonymous witness we got nothing.
But the whistleblower is impartial! /s
The whistleblower is as impartial as CNN in an airport.
No long drawn out clown show. Congress should pass a law imposing penalties for bringing false Impeachment charges and tying up the office of the president causing national security issues.
Schiff should be facing prison time for sedition.
they could attack anyone who disagrees with their political ideas, shoot them in the head and throw them in a ditch. ....based on false charges.
If the can do it to the President, they can do it to US
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