by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

As they say…. oops.

A top National Security Council (NSC) official who listened to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky testified to Congress today that he did not believe Trump had discussed anything illegal during the conversation.

“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,” former NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison testified today, according to a record of his remarks obtained by The Federalist.

He also said:

Morrison testified that the transcript of the phone call that was declassified and released by Trump in late September “accurately and completely reflects the substance of the call,”

There goes the scold that tried to edit the transcript to add to it that which didn’t happen but couldn’t because these call records were moved to a system with security sufficient to prevent him from doing so.

Then we have more — the identity of the so-called “whistleblower”, who isn’t actually a whistleblower:

Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

That would be a severe problem, since the CIA is not authorized to conduct operations in the United States or against US persons.

What’s even worse is that it appears this individual actively worked with a DNC operative who was involved in seeding the “Russian narrative” and invited that person into the Obama White House for meetings.

Do we have what amounts to an attempt at a coup going on right now between the Democrat Party, Nancy Pelosi, Schitt and certain members of the CIA who want Trump out of office by any means possible, lawful or not, and who are not willing to abide the results of the 2016 election never mind fearing that in 2020 they’ll lose?

It sure looks like it, and that what’s really going on here is that the Demonscats are trying to cover up a list of felonies so long and involving so many in that regard that they’re almost to the point of one questioning whether they’d resort to actual violence to obtain their desired result.

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