As President Donald Trump fights back the groundswell of opposition triggered by the revelation that he has pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, one tactic he has employed is attacking the whistleblower. While much of conduct central to the Ukraine scandal has happened in public, an intelligence community whistleblower complaint — which has been blocked from Congress by the administration — triggered the outcry and greater scrutiny of the series of events.
In response, Trump called the complaint “a political hack job.” He said the stories were “ridiculous,” and he claimed that, though he doesn’t know the whistleblower’s identity, he heard “it’s a partisan person.”
As Media Matters has documented, some of Fox News personalities shared Trump’s rhetoric.
View the complete September 25 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.