also included the name in his tweet just in case his followers wanted to save themselves a click. Tweeting a link to a story on Breitbart that named the person believed to have filed the complaint against the president, first son Donald Trump Jr. That’s a memo that did not get passed down to the president’s namesake, who on Wednesday used his platform to name the alleged individual, like the idiot frat boy perpetually seeking daddy’s approval he is and always will be. Yet clearly the president’s last functioning brain cell, burnt out and working overtime, has somehow gotten the memo that it would be quite to very bad to actually go ahead and reveal the whistle-blower’s identity. In addition to suggesting the government execute the whistle-blower’s sources like in the “old days,” he’s repeatedly insisted the whistle-blower must come forward, admitted he’s trying to unmask the whistle-blower, and creepily tweeted “Where’s the whistleblower?,” when he hasn’t been busy claiming said whistle-blower doesn‘t exist.

The Inspector General Act of 1978 states that agency watchdogs “shall not, after receipt of a complaint or information from an employee, disclose the identity of the employee without the consent of the employee, unless the inspector general determines such disclosure is unavoidable.” In addition, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 dictates that the president must enforce protections against retaliation of the whistle-blower which, naturally, Trump has not done at all.

You wouldn’t know it from the way Donald Trump has waged a campaign to out the whistle-blower, but the individual who filed a formal complaint against the president for pressuring Ukraine to smear his political rivals is, in fact, protected by federal law.

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