Chief Justice Censors Question About 'Whistleblower,' So Rand Paul Releases It to the Public
Rand Paul Releases Question Chief Justice Roberts Censored
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By Joe Saunders
Published January 30, 2020 at 2:18pm
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has spent a career using speeches on the Senate floor building a reputation as a maverick among Republicans on Capitol Hill. But it was a question he never got to ask Thursday during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate that’s putting Paul’s name in the
At issue was the bizarre, continuing insistence by Democratic impeachment managers like Rep. Adam Schiff that they do not know the identity of the “whistleblower” whose accusations kicked off the whole impeachment effort.
Yet at the same time they continue to try to keep one particular name from being uttered aloud.
On Thursday afternoon, Chief Justice John Roberts tried to continue the conspiracy of silence, but Paul would not be stopped from speaking out.
The matter rose to a head when Paul — who had clashed with Roberts on the subject Wednesday, according to submitted a written question containing the name of Eric Ciaramella, the former National Security Council aide who is widely believed to be the “whistwith Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. leblower” who complained about Trump’s July 25 phone call
Though the question was directed to both the House impeachment managers and the president’s defense team, it struck to the heart of the prosecution’s ginned-up case against Trump.