Conservative commentator Mark Levin named the alleged intelligence community whistleblower, whose complaint sparked an impeachment investigation into President Trump, and invited him to come on his program to clear his name if he has been misidentified.
“He’s not a whistleblower. His name is Eric Ciaramella,” Levin said on his daily radio show Tuesday. “And if it’s not, he’s welcome to come on this program and say so.”
While not confirmed, Ciaramella has been named in multiple reports as the career CIA analyst who blew the whistle on Trump’s alleged abuse of power relating to a July phone call with the president of Ukraine. During the call, Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption in his country as well as Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
Ciaramella, 33, was the Ukraine director on the National Security Council during the end of the Obama administration and remained there during the early months of the Trump administration as acting senior director for European and Russian affairs. He is now a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council under the director of national intelligence.
Trump has not named the alleged whistleblower, but several of his close associates, including his son Donald Trump Jr., have.
“The New York Times won’t print his name. The Washington Post won’t print his name. Cable TV, you’re not allowed to mention his name,” Levin complained. “The left-wing fascistic media won’t mention his name. Why? Because you see his background, you figure out his connections, you see what’s been going on with all of them, and their whole house of cards comes tumbling down.”
Fox News guests Lars Larsen and Mollie Hemingway have both named Ciaramella on-air as the potential whistleblower despite a directive from corporate leadership asking hosts and other staffers not to use his name. Hemingway was criticized by Fox media critic Howard Kurtz, who said naming the whistleblower would “violate the spirit” of the law.
Levin warned of a media conspiracy to hide the identity of the whistleblower, thus keeping the pressure on Trump and fueling the impeachment fire. If the identity were to be revealed, Levin says, his credibility would be hindered, and the Democrats’ investigation would begin to unravel.
“The blue dress, if you will,” Levin quipped. “This phony whistleblower is the blue dress.”
The “blue dress” is a reference to an article of clothing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky turned over to investigators that contained former President Bill Clinton’s semen, proving he had lied about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky while in office.
“I don’t care what the motivation of this person is,” Levin said of the whistleblower. “This is our country. We are not going to surrender it. That ain’t happening.”
