The Whistleblower Complaint About Donald Trump's Secret Phone Call, Explained

Hey Buddy! Long-time, no see! How have you been?

I’m sorry. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

No, my little neophyte Nazi. There isn’t a person with a high IQ blowing a whistle. They’re talking about the whistleblower complaint from a source within the intelligence community.

No. No. No. Apparently, a high-level person in the national intelligence community—one of the 17 agencies charged with collecting, analyzing, and delivering foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information—found out that Donald Trump said something to a foreign leader that was very troubling.

The Washington Post reports:

Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

It was not immediately clear which foreign leader Trump was speaking with or what he pledged to deliver, but his direct involvement in the matter has not been previously disclosed. It raises new questions about the president’s handling of sensitive information and may further strain his relationship with U.S. spy agencies. One former official said the communication was a phone call.

Jesus? No Lil’ Racist Rascal. That wasn’t choir practice. That was a Klan meeting.

Probably not.

Whoever filed the complaint had access to presidential phone calls, according to NBC News. A person that high on the intelligence chain would already know that U.S. law states that the president can reveal anything he wants at any time. Essentially, the president can unilaterally declassify information whenever he wants. So the complaint would have to be about more than that.

The whistleblower told the Intelligence Community Inspector. But again, there isn’t an actual whistle.

No, it’s the Inspector General—an independent watchdog who is supposed to notify Congress when there is something of “urgent concern.” But the Director of National Intelligence prevented the IG from passing the information along to Congress.

Again, baby bigot, this story has nothing to do with whistles! “Urgent concern” is actually “a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees,” the Post reports.

“A Director of National Intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower complaint that the [inspector general] determined to be credible and urgent from being provided to the congressional intelligence committees. Never,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

No one knows.

All we know is that the complaint was filed on August 12, a day when Trump was out playing golf. Some people think it could have been Putin because…

I meant Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump spoke to him over the phone on July 31. Curiously, Trump didn’t tell anyone about the phone call. Then, when the Kremlin released the information, Trump said the call was about wildfires in Siberia.

Well, now that you mention it, Dan Coates, the previous Director of National Intelligence announced he would step down as Director of National Intelligence on July 28. Two weeks later (and three days before the whistleblower formally filed the complaint), Coates burst into a classified meeting and urged the woman next in line for his job, Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, to resign. They both left their jobs on the same day, August 15, three days after this complaint was filed.

FORGET THE WHISTLES!

This doesn’t have anything to do with whistles, or IQ or even spy secrets!

The story is about how Trump is changing the government into a monarchy filled with lackeys who are willing to protect him at all costs. If there is no Congressional oversight of the presidency, then we essentially live in a dictatorship.

I don’t even like to wade into the unprovable “if Obama did it” circular argument. However, this specific case shows exposes the hypocrisy of Republicans and so-called “constitutional conservatives” who whined about the presidential overreach of “King Obama” when he unilaterally conferred legal status to immigrants, signed Executive Order 13658 raising the minimum wage on federal contracts, and used recess appointments to subvert congressional gridlock.

Well…If there’s one thing we can find solace in, it’s that Donald Trump is stupid and a liar. He promised that Mexico would pay for a coast-to-coast wall. He promised that he had a secret plan to defeat ISIS. He promised that he would fix America’s gun problems, create a better healthcare plan, create a space force, end the AIDS epidemic, cure cancer, bring back manufacturing jobs, kill all the drug dealers and bring black voters to the Republican Party.

Plus, Trump is a rich white man. I’m used to white people getting away with shit.

What’s that?

Sigh.