On Thursday, President Trump retweeted a Washington Examiner article that named the alleged whistleblower who alerted officials to improprieties on the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump’s retweet of the @TrumpWarRoom tweet marks the first time the president has referenced Ciaramella’s name. The flurry of tweets occurred after the whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Zaid, ripped Sen. Marsha Blackburn for her attacks on the still unidentified whistleblower.
“Members of Senate Whistleblower Caucus should protect#whistleblowers,” wrote Zaid.
“It’s pretty simple,” Trump War Room responded, “The CIA ‘whistleblower’ is not a real whistleblower!” Included in the tweet was a link to the Washington Examiner’s article “Schiff hired former colleague of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella the day after Trump-Ukraine call,” published on Dec. 3.