In response to a CIA whistleblower complaint, many of the President’s supporters argue it’s hearsay and therefore should be disregarded. Should we? Is it hearsay? What is Hearsay? Legal Eagles get 2 months of unlimited learning on Skillshare for FREE:
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Hearsay is an out of court statement used for the truth of the matter asserted in that statement. As I was writing this episode George Conway and Ken White wrote some amazing tweet threads that covered the same ground. I highly recommend reading them:
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Also, it just occurred to me that that the President’s statements are probably not being used for the truth of the matter asserted (in fact most of what he says is false), but rather the independent effect of the statements on the Ukranian president and for their legal status (i.e. an abuse of power).
What started as a rumor that there was an intelligence community complaint that the White House was trying to quash snowballed into a scandal that may dwarf Watergate.
Early this week we learned that the whistleblower’s complaint deal with the President directly. Most assumed it related to the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
When the White House released the transcript of the call with Zelensky, we learned that the two leaders discussed military aid, and then discussed two “favors” that President Trump wanted from Ukraine: 1) he wanted Ukraine to look into “servers” and Crowdstrike and 2) he wanted Ukraine to restart an investigation into Trump’s main political rival Joe Biden.
The next day the full Whistleblower complaint was released. The full complaint recapitulated all of the information in the read-out of the phone call and also dropped the bombshells that the White House had been attempting to coverup the phone call (and potentially others) but hiding it in a computer system designed only for the most secure communications.
House Democrats have already voted to start an impeachment inquiry.
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