{"id":4759,"date":"2020-01-23T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2020-01-23T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:58:08","slug":"whistleblower-who-touched-off-trumps-impeachment-was-overheard-in-the-white-house-discussing-with-another-staffer-how-to-remove-the-newly-elected-president-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/whistleblower-who-touched-off-trumps-impeachment-was-overheard-in-the-white-house-discussing-with-another-staffer-how-to-remove-the-newly-elected-president-from-office\/","title":{"rendered":"whistleblower&#8221; who touched off Trump&#8217;s impeachment \u2013 was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WhistleblowerOverheard-1024x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4760\" width=\"501\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WhistleblowerOverheard-1024x321.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WhistleblowerOverheard-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WhistleblowerOverheard-768x241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WhistleblowerOverheard.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&nbsp;Eric Ciaramella, right. He and a colleague, Sean Misko, below &#8212; both now central to impeachment &#8212; were Obama administration holdovers (whitehouse.gov).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/search\/?q=Paul+Sperry\">Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations<\/a><\/strong><br><strong>January 22, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he also overheard Ciaramella telling Misko, referring to Trump, \u2018We can\u2019t let him enact this foreign policy.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alarmed by their conversation, the military staffer immediately reported what he heard to his superiors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was so shocking that they were so blatant and outspoken about their opinion,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThey weren\u2019t shouting it, but they didn\u2019t seem to feel the need to hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The co-workers didn\u2019t think much more about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe just thought they were wacky,\u201d the first source said. \u201cLittle did we know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither Ciaramella nor Misko could be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html\">continue reading &#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Eric Ciaramella, right. He and a colleague, Sean Misko, below &#8212; both now central to impeachment &#8212; were Obama administration holdovers (whitehouse.gov). https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/22\/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html By\u00a0Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsJanuary 22, 2020 He said he also overheard Ciaramella telling Misko, referring to Trump, \u2018We can\u2019t let him enact this foreign policy.\u2019 \u201c Alarmed by their conversation, the military staffer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/whistleblower-who-touched-off-trumps-impeachment-was-overheard-in-the-white-house-discussing-with-another-staffer-how-to-remove-the-newly-elected-president-from-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">whistleblower&#8221; who touched off Trump&#8217;s impeachment \u2013 was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,37,20,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}