Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just declassified the documents from the first Trump impeachment investigation. The ones that show the whole thing was built on a foundation of hearsay, political bias, and a whistleblower who had about as much firsthand knowledge of the Trump-Zelenskyy call as your neighbor’s cat. And ABC, CBS, and NBC — the three networks that ran wall-to-wall impeachment coverage for months — didn’t give it a single second of airtime.
Not one second. Zero. The cover-up of the cover-up is now officially underway.
Remember Eric Ciaramella? The “whistleblower” whose name we weren’t allowed to say out loud for two years because Adam Schiff acted like revealing it would cause the sun to explode? Well, turns out the intelligence community’s own inspector general knew from the beginning that Ciaramella had — and this is straight from the documents — a “potential for bias.” That’s government-speak for “this guy had an axe to grind the size of a lumberjack convention.”
Here’s what the declassified files show. Ciaramella had zero firsthand knowledge of the phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy. None. He heard about it secondhand, which used to be called “gossip” before the intelligence community rebranded it as “whistleblowing.”
But wait — there’s more. Ciaramella had worked closely with Vice President Biden on Ukraine policy. He traveled to Ukraine WITH Biden. He was involved in discussions about Ukrainian prosecutors — the same prosecutors at the center of the whole impeachment drama. And he was a registered Democrat.
Now, any reasonable person hearing this might think, “Hmm, maybe the guy who worked for Biden on Ukraine, traveled with Biden to Ukraine, and is a registered Democrat might not be the most impartial witness when it comes to accusing Trump of improper dealings with Ukraine.” But apparently the inspector general’s briefing to Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee mentioned only that Ciaramella “self-disclosed that he was a registered member of the Democratic Party.” Just kind of slipped that in there. No big deal. Nothing to see here.
And here’s the part that should make every American’s blood boil. The inspector general actually CHANGED THE STANDARDS to make Ciaramella’s complaint viable. The old standard required “evidence or firsthand knowledge.” The new standard? “Hearsay and nothing else.” They literally rewrote the rules so that a Biden operative with no direct knowledge of anything could trigger an impeachment of the sitting President of the United States.
They changed the rules mid-game because the evidence didn’t fit. Classic.
So where are ABC, CBS, and NBC on this? Remember, these are the networks that preempted regular programming to show us live impeachment hearings. They had countdown clocks. They had panel after panel of “legal experts” explaining why Trump was definitely, absolutely, no-question-about-it guilty. Wolf Blitzer probably still has an impeachment graphic saved on his desktop.
But now that we have the actual documents proving the whole thing was a partisan setup from jump? Crickets. Total silence. They’d rather run a segment on a golden retriever that can skateboard than tell their viewers the truth about what happened.
Fox News covered it. Newsmax covered it. NewsNation landed an exclusive interview with Gabbard about the documents. Even CBS News 24/7 — the streaming service nobody watches — mentioned it. But the big three broadcast networks? They looked at declassified government documents proving political bias in a presidential impeachment and said, “Nah, we’re good.”
This is why trust in the media is somewhere between “used car salesman” and “that email from the Nigerian prince.” They spent months telling us the impeachment was the most important constitutional moment of our lifetimes. They told us the evidence was overwhelming. They told us the whistleblower was a patriotic hero who deserved protection.
Turns out the “patriotic hero” was a Democratic Party operative who worked for Biden, had no direct knowledge of anything, and was only able to file his complaint because the inspector general changed the rules to allow hearsay. And the networks that sold us this fairy tale for months won’t spend ten seconds correcting the record.
The documents are out. The receipts are on the table. The first impeachment was a partisan hit job dressed up in constitutional clothing, and the same media that cheered it on is now pretending the proof doesn’t exist.
But we see it. And we won’t forget it.