WV,
It’s hard for me to watch that. IMO, Dore talks as if he’s being paid directly by Trump. Seriously. I’m not exaggerating. He’s carrying his water, and his take on this issue is so obviously prejudiced, I’m amazed he isn’t laughing the entire time at his own chutzpah.
He knows nothing about this guy, yet he’s already determined he’s a “spook” and was supposedly sent by the CIA — which Trump controls — to (spy on and) go after Trump. How does Dore know this? Dore can’t even conceive of the possibility that the whistleblower honestly saw and heard things that disturbed him enough to act . . . the interviewee seemed to think that was the case, btw, in his first response to Dore’s spiel. Trump’s own summary of the call shows how wrong Dore is, as does the IG’s report (a Trump appointee).
Also, Dore is 110% wrong about Russiagate, which seems to also be the basis for his take on this. That it was somehow debunked. He’s using a bogus premise to base his bogus conclusions. Nothing was disproven about Mueller’s report. It’s still the consensus among the Trump-led Intel community. And if it had already been debunked, why is Trump still trying to strong-arm foreign leaders to discredit it?
(As mentioned in the impeachment thread, it was reported today that he did this recently with the Australian PM, getting Barr involved, etc.)
. . .
Oh, well.