Sean Davis

They were breaking rules.

They were leaking and they were lying all so that they could overthrow a president because he, the man who was elected by the people, didn't like the foreign policy that had been chosen by a bunch of unelected, faithless bureaucrats in Washington.

So we learned a couple of things that we had always suspected.

And the first was that, and this was something we reported on very early on, which was that the inspector general actually changed their internal rules for how you could file whistleblower complaints.

But before this so-called whistleblower, I call them axe grinders, came in and decided he was going to try and overthrow the president, the intelligence community had certain rules about what you had to have in a complaint in order for it to be valid.

And one of those rules was you had to have firsthand evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

And at the time, they never, ever had it.

This guy had a call transcript that he read and he didn't like things that the president said in the call transcript.

And then so he went and talked to other people and put down their recollections and kind of his own third-hand view of things and said, you know, this is a criminal thing and they need to look into campaign finance and all these other criminal violations.

And it turns out, in order for that thing to have even been accepted under the previous rules, it would have to have had firsthand evidence, which he never, ever had.

It was all hearsay.

It was all second- and third-hand evidence.

And you had the inspector general secretly change the rules, backdate the form.

mislead about what the intention was so that he could make this thing, which never would have been valid, somehow magically valid so Schiff could go run against Trump on it.

And then the second thing he did is we learned all of the behind the scenes Democrat collusion that was going on.

You had this inspector general that was breaking

rule after rule after rule in order to release this complaint.

You had DOJ saying nothing's wrong here.

You had the FBI look at it and kind of scoff.

You had the DNI at the time who said, no, there's no urgent concern here.