Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just declassified a batch of internal memos that show exactly what most of us suspected all along: Eric Ciaramella — the anonymous CIA analyst whose complaint triggered Trump’s first impeachment — had documented political bias and relied entirely on hearsay to build his case.
Unbelievable. Except it’s completely believable, because we’ve been saying this for six years.
For those who need a refresher, here’s how the first impeachment worked. In 2019, an anonymous “whistleblower” inside the intelligence community filed a complaint alleging that President Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate the Biden family’s shady business dealings. The media treated this anonymous complaint like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Adam Schiff held secret hearings in a Capitol basement. Democrats impeached Trump on a party-line vote. The Senate acquitted him. The end.
Except it wasn’t the end. Because what we were never supposed to find out is that the so-called whistleblower was a partisan operative with an axe to grind.
The newly declassified memos reveal that Ciaramella had documented political leanings that should have disqualified his complaint from the jump. His information was secondhand at best — he wasn’t on the call, didn’t hear the call, and relied on what other people told him about the call. And his complaint was routed through channels that conveniently bypassed normal intelligence community review.
(Remember when Adam Schiff told America he had “no idea” who the whistleblower was? Yeah. About that.)
The FBI is now “closely reviewing” the entire first impeachment saga in light of these new disclosures. That’s bureaucrat-speak for “we’re building a case.” Whether anything comes of it remains to be seen, but the fact that the bureau is taking a second look tells you everything about how dirty this was.
We spent months — months — watching Democrats and their media allies parade a procession of “witnesses” through televised hearings, each one more dramatic than the last, all built on the foundation of one anonymous complaint from a guy who had a political grudge and no firsthand knowledge of anything.
The media protected Ciaramella like he was a national treasure. Any journalist who even hinted at his identity was treated like they’d committed a war crime. Social media platforms banned people for typing his name. We were told that revealing a whistleblower’s identity would “endanger” him and “undermine the integrity of the process.”
What process? A biased CIA analyst hears gossip about a phone call, launders it through a complaint form, and Democrats use it to impeach a sitting president? That’s not a process. That’s a setup.
And the beautiful irony of all of this? The thing Trump allegedly pressured Ukraine to investigate — Hunter Biden’s business dealings — turned out to be real. The laptop was real. The influence-peddling was real. The millions flowing from Ukrainian energy companies to the Biden family were real. Trump asked about it, got impeached for asking, and then everything he asked about turned out to be true.
Schiff knew the whistleblower’s identity. Schiff’s staff had contact with the whistleblower before the complaint was filed. Schiff lied about it on camera. These aren’t conspiracy theories — these are documented facts that the media spent years trying to memory-hole.
Now Gabbard has blown the classification off the supporting documents, the FBI is reviewing the case, and the same people who screamed “IMPEACH!” are suddenly very interested in talking about literally anything else.
We’re not going to let them change the subject. The first impeachment was a fraud built on hearsay from a biased operative, protected by a media blackout, and executed by politicians who knew the foundation was rotten. The memos are out. The FBI has the file open. And for the first time in six years, the people who orchestrated this farce are the ones who should be nervous.