The impeachment effort against Trump in 2019 was a sham, as many of us have long known. While there were some elements of truth, it was largely a Democrat-manufactured initiative alleging a quid pro quo based on hearsay. Key to this controversy was then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee and lied to the public about his contact with the whistleblower who instigated this situation – a lie for which there still have been zero legal consequences, by the way.
The analyst involved admitted to being a committed Democrat, which raised questions about his political bias. But that meant he was perfectly aligned with individuals within the so-called “Deep State” who were trying to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Recently declassified documents from the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, reveal that even the whistleblower’s colleagues were skeptical of the intelligence operations, despite their support for the impeachment effort. One of the witnesses, referred to as “witness #2,” had worked with disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, a central figure in the Russian collusion narrative. This witness also co-authored the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, ordered by Barack Obama before he left office, which contained flawed information supporting the collusion claims.
Furthermore, the whistleblower admitted to having worked closely with then-Vice President Joe Biden. They also informed the inspector general that they failed to mention a conversation with Adam Schiff prior to filing their complaint and apologized for this omission, although it was never made public. These documents had been kept locked away until now. One could argue that this information contains all the trappings of an attempted coup against a duly elected president:
DEVELOPING: Tomorrow I'm told almost 400 pages of long-secret documents newly declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard will be released that will reveal evidence of an Intelligence Community conspiracy to dirty-up President Trump … developing …
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) April 13, 2026
? HOLY SMOKES. DNI Tulsi Gabbard just declassified bombshell files that prove the nexus of Donald Trump's impeachment scam in 2019 came from an ADMITTED leftist and liar
These files were HIDDEN from the public until now.
The so-called "whistleblower" APOLOGIZED for accusing… pic.twitter.com/gGxdSYOtH8
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 13, 2026
The documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News provide a starkly different portrait of the alleged whistleblower whose name and face were never shown to the public and whose lawyerly written letter accusing Trump of hijacking Ukraine policy for political gain was heralded by Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings.
Investigators for the Intelligence Community Inspector General documented several concerns about the Trump accuser’s political motives, noting he admitted he was a “registered Democrat” who had worked closely with Joe Biden on Ukraine issues and who disliked some of the conservative figures in the president’s orbit, the memos show.
The investigators also elicited an apology from the Trump accuser for misleading the probe and were acutely aware his allegations were based solely on second- and third-hand accounts about what Trump was alleged to have said and done.
“I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President,” the alleged whistleblower, who claimed Trump improperly tried to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden, admitted in his initial August 2019 intake form.
That stunning line on the limitations of the whistleblower’s knowledge was not included in the nine-page letter then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., released in late summer 2019 that touched off a months-long political maelstrom and led to Trump’s impeachment by a Democrat-led House and his eventual acquittal in the Senate.
The memos also disclose numerous other details about the whistleblower and the intelligence community’s assessment of his claims that weren’t available to the public, including that the CIA analyst:
- Appeared interested in thwarting then-Attorney General Bill Barr from probing Hunter Biden, even though Barr wasn’t a member of the intelligence community covered by the complaint;
- Disliked Republicans around Trump, including former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and current FBI Director Kash Patel. The documents show the alleged whistleblower even went so far as to make a “request for Nunes not to view the disclosure” as a member of Congress even though he was a member of the “Gang of Eight” leadership entitled to see such intelligence;
- Impugned then-top Trump National Security Council staffer Michael Ellis, now the deputy CIA director, as “slippery and untrustworthy” during a voluntary interview;
- Claimed he was a victim of an intimidation campaign carried out by “right-wing bloggers”; and
- Worked on his whistleblower complaint with a witness whose name was redacted and who told investigators he was connected to Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who was fired in 2019 for his role in leading the now-discredited Russia collusion probe.
Such spontaneous statements during the early intelligence community’s review of the whistleblower complaint led the inspector general’s agents to raise red flags about the complaining CIA officer’s possible political bias.
While [former Intelligence Inspector General Michael] Atkinson kept the memos secret, he did grant a closed-door classified interview to lawmakers during the leadup to the House impeachment proceedings. The House Intelligence Committee is expected to release the transcript of that interview as early as this week.
Even supporters of the alleged whisteblower had concerns, the memos show. The official identified only as “Witness 2” disclosed that even though he came to vouch for and support the whistleblower, he had his own concerns about the allegations and would not have made such allegations based on what he knew.
“Witness 2 made it clear that [Redacted] would not have taken independent action on the information [Redacted] read in the transcript for two reasons: first that [Redacted] routinely deals with issues on a daily basis that are contrary to [Redacted] personal beliefs; and second that [Redacted] did not have the level of granular insight of details related to the Ukraine that Complainant had,” the memo said. “Witness 2 could not connect the same dots that Complainant did into the impact of what was said during the telephone call.”
That same witness acknowledged that before he supported the whistleblower, he had worked on a controversial December 2016 intelligence community assessment that claimed Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton in that year’s presidential race, a conclusion that the CIA now admits was based on faulty intelligence and poorly executed spy tradecraft.
The memos’ most explosive revelation shows the alleged whistleblower was caught early on by the Intelligence Community Inspector General — the independent watchdog for U.S. spy agencies — falsely claiming he did not have contact with Congressional Democrats about his Trump-Ukraine allegations.
When evidence emerged in media reports that he had indeed had prior contact with Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, the alleged whistleblower admitted he had omitted that information in his initial contacts with the IG and offered an apology, something never disclosed to the public.
We always had our doubts; some of the released information was already out in the open, like Adam Schiff’s prior knowledge and his interactions with this analyst, who turned out to be more of a Democrat operative. Now, we’ve uncovered official documents—files previously hidden from Trump’s legal team—that clearly constitute exculpatory evidence.
This whole endeavor was viewed as a façade from the start. The American public never bought into it. We all sensed how it would unfold, and now we have the proof that reveals this charade for what it really is.
