Someone calls 911 to report a shooting on Main Street. The police rush in to find a man on the ground bleeding from a gunshot wound, another man standing over him with a gun in his hand, a dozen witnesses who all say they saw the man with the gun shoot the bleeding man, and the man with the gun confirms that he indeed did the shooting.
At this point, it doesn’t matter who called 911. So why are the Trump defenders obsessed with identifying the whistleblower?
The profile on my Twitter account @JacFiorentino partly describes me as : “… French born, raised and educated, but more American than typical Americans.” By that I mean, due to my background and life path, born in Egypt into a Jewish family in times of war, stripped of our possessions and expelled from the country of our birth, but still considering ourselves lucky to have gotten out alive, once in America, I had an appreciation for this wondrous experiment in self- government that most Americans take for granted and undervalue. Most Americans have not experienced life elsewhere.
In that regard, I also consider Col. Vindman, who is testifying today before Congress about the Ukraine controversy, to be more American than typical Americans. Born in the Soviet Union, his family immigrated to the U.S. in 1979 when he was 3 years old. He grew up with a keen appreciation for the contrast between this country and what the rest of the planet had to offer, became a life-long civil servant, career Army officer, fought in two wars, was wounded and received a Purple Heart.
I certainly consider him more American than the Trump defenders who are busy shamelessly and viciously smearing him, aiming to destroy him as they would the Whistleblower if they succeed in identifying him or her.
