Newly released documents prove that President Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019-2020 was a carefully orchestrated fraud.
It was all fabricated by Trump-hating “deep state actors” within the intelligence community who secretly conspired with Democrats in Congress to remove Trump from office and subvert the will of the American people who put him there.
The damning evidence was produced on Monday April 13th by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. On Wednesday, she sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting two of the central figures who initiated the impeachment proceedings, accusing them of masterminding a conspiracy.
The first is Michael Atkinson, who served as Inspector General (IG) of the Intelligence Community at the time of the impeachment hearings, and the whistleblower who filed a formal complaint about Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event with farmers on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
The identity of the whistleblower – a CIA analyst and registered Democrat – has still not been officially released, which is completely absurd. He has no right to hide in the shadows of anonymity. By law, only the IG can refuse to release his name. But this doesn’t apply to anyone else. Gabbard should identify him, especially since he is no longer in intelligence.
Moreover, the so-called “whistleblower” was not a whistleblower at all, as I repeatedly explained in a series of columns during Trump’s impeachment seven years ago. The complaint he filed against the president never qualified as a valid complaint under the whistleblower statute. It does not meet the two required conditions laid down in the law.
That is, the alleged unlawful conduct must relate to intelligence activities and must be committed by a member of the intelligence community. The President is not and never has been a member of the intelligence community. Under Article II of the Constitution, the president has sweeping powers to conduct foreign affairs, negotiate with leaders of other countries, and make requests or request information.
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That’s exactly what Trump did in his conversation with Zelenskyy. He suggested that the leader investigate Hunter Biden’s ridiculously lucrative business deals with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, as well as future President Joe Biden’s on-camera brag in which he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer money unless the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating both Burisma and Hunter Biden is fired. It seemed like an overt and corrupt “quid pro quo” to protect his son and keep the Biden family financial gravy train chugging. It also smacked of extortion.
There was nothing inappropriate about Trump’s phone call, as the younger Biden was already the subject of a DOJ criminal investigation into his highly suspicious international business plans. Trump’s request was logical and not at all unusual. Other presidents have done the same.
Our Department of Justice has requested foreign assistance in numerous cases over the years. Presidents sometimes get involved. It was ridiculous for Democrats to declare the conversation a criminal offense. Yet they did so diligently.
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They knowingly exploited a false whistleblower who had no first-hand knowledge of the phone call. He didn’t listen to it or read a transcript of it. He just heard it from someone else. The Constitution does not grant the power of review or censure to unelected and inferior bureaucratic employees relative to the most superior official in the American government, the President.
Again, I wrote about this as the impeachment saga unfolded in 2019:
“So what should we call the fake ‘whistleblower?’ It is more accurate to describe him as an undercover informant acting as a Democratic operative who spied on President Trump by gathering rumored information intended to harm him.
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Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that the informant was aided and abetted by none other than Schiff and/or Schiff’s staff to concoct a pretext for the President’s impeachment.”
And sure enough, Gabbard’s never-before-seen documents confirm this. The so-called whistleblower eventually admitted that he was a partisan who “worked closely with Vice President Biden” and “traveled with Biden to Ukraine.” In other words, when Trump became president, the analyst appears to have become a hostile “mole” and played a major role in instigating the fraudulent impeachment.
Equally shocking is the alleged role played by Atkinson, who should have remained a fair and neutral inspector general. Yet records show that he vouched for the credibility of the false whistleblower, knowing full well that he had provided false information in his complaint. “I also want to make it clear that I never considered the whistleblower to be politically biased,” he said during his testimony.
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The identity of the whistleblower – a CIA analyst and registered Democrat – has still not been officially released, which is completely absurd.
Atkinson had a duty to throw the waste complaint in the nearest waste bin. The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel ruled it was so inadequate that Congress should not be notified. Instead, the IG did the opposite. He labeled the complaint as an “urgent concern” when it was not, and used it as a cudgel against Trump, pushing aggressively toward impeachment.
Worse, exculpatory evidence that would have benefited Trump was deliberately withheld from Congress, the American people, and the president’s impeachment defense team. It was hidden under the “secret” mark. No one was ever made aware of the CIA analyst’s acute bias, his political motivations, or his critical admission that “I have no direct knowledge of the President’s private comments or communications.”
The then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Democrat Adam Schiff, knew all about the exculpatory evidence but kept it hidden. Secretly, the analyst coordinated with Schiff’s staff before the whistleblower complaint was ever filed. Trump was set up.
Schiff publicly maintained that he never knew the man’s name and “we have not spoken directly to the whistleblower.” When that was exposed as untrue, Schiff tried to reverse it. Documents show the analyst also lied to Atkinson. He later apologized for making the same deception as Schiff. Amazingly, the apology itself was kept under wraps.
Gabbard has accused Atkinson of ignoring DOJ guidelines, exceeding his legal jurisdiction and weaponizing the established whistleblower process. “Inspector General Atkinson has failed to fulfill his responsibility to the American people by putting political motives above the truth.”
The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the newly released documents is that Trump was framed. Elements within the intelligence community, including Atkinson and the bogus whistleblower, masterminded a conspiracy that was used as a basis to impeach President Trump, Gabbard said.
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Democrats like Schiff knew it was completely bogus, but they didn’t care. Their goal was, as it has always been, to destroy Trump and drive him from office.
Our Department of Justice has requested foreign assistance in numerous cases over the years. Presidents sometimes get involved. It was ridiculous for Democrats to declare the conversation a criminal offense. Yet they did so diligently.
What happens now, now that the pernicious lies have been unraveled?
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The Justice Department must conduct a thorough investigation based on Gabbard’s criminal referral. Possible charges include false statements, perjury, obstruction and conspiracy to defraud the government. Those who engineered a false impeachment must be held accountable in court.
Trump, of course, survived the impeachment ordeal. History books should be true to the truth and call it a farce.
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