Paul Sperry talks about his new piece investigating Eric Ciaramella, the "whistleblower" who triggered the first Trump impeachment, with Andrew Walworth on Thursday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show.
"He's the guy who went running to Adam Schiff and blew the whistle on Trump for what he thought was an improper phone call with the president of Ukraine. This first impeachment of Trump always smelled like a political op, and now after we've reviewed over 1,000 emails from former Vice President Biden's office, it now looks more like a coverup operation," Sperry said. "The sleazy business Biden was doing in Ukraine, we're talking about the extortion of [former Ukrainian president] Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, which was paying Biden's son millions of dollars at the time."
"In the Obama White House, Ciaramella was the NSC director over Ukraine policy, and he was attached to Vice President Biden's office because Obama had made Biden his 'point man' on Ukraine policy. He was right in the middle of all this policymaking on Ukraine, he was in the middle of talking to the Ukrainian prosecutors, bringing them into the White House, taking notes with Biden in the room, flying over to Ukraine on Air Force Two. He was also looped in on all the communications regarding controlling damage about the unseemly optics that the vice president's son was taking millions of dollars from a corrupt oligarch when Biden was giving speeches saying we need to crack down on corruption in Ukraine."
"White House communications director for Vice President Biden then, Kate Bedingfield, was cc'ing Ciaramella on all these damage control emails. He had a front-row seat to all these shenanigans Biden was doing in Ukraine regarding his son and Burisma," Sperry continued. "He was in the loop and he never disclosed this potential conflict to Adam Schiff when he filed the complaint against Donald Trump."
"But with the other quid pro quo, 'You gotta fire this prosecutor who is investigating my son's employer or you're not getting a billion dollars in aid.' That was a much more glaring quid pro quo, Ciaramella was quiet, he didn't say anything, he didn't go running to Congress and blow the whistle," Sperry said.
"He's fair game right now if the Biden impeachment inquiry calls him to testify," Sperry added. "He would potentially be a material witness."
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