In all the news coming out today, I think people are missing the significance of this from the Whistleblower:
“Based on my understanding, there were approximately a dozen White House officials who listened to the call—a mixture of policy officials and duty officers in the White House Situation Room, as is customary.”
Complaint on .Gov server
That’s the one between Trump and the president of the Ukraine, the shakedown.
The complaint goes on to say it was expected to be an ordinary call between Trump and a foreign leader, so there was no effort made to limit who was listening in.
That means about a dozen people who can be subpoenaed, a dozen facing charges in the cover-up (maybe more — we don’t know who else might have been involved in moving the transcript to the classified information server).
It’s a dozen people who are liking wetting their pants right now, trying to find a lawyer to represent them, soon to be begging for immunity in exchange for spilling their guts about this.
Also from the report, after saying he or she has information that the President is soliciting information from a foreign country to aid him in the 2020 election :
“Over the past four months, more than half a dozen U.S. officials have informed me of various facts related to this effort.”
So, more than half a dozen of the officials who originally head the call or even more witnesses, subpoenas, charges, people look for immunity deals.
There was never any hope of keeping this private. As Nancy Pelosi said, Trump is self-impeaching.