POTUS Ramps Up Attacks On Whistleblower

President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the Ukraine call whistleblower Monday saying the person "knew almost nothing."

ABC News reports that lawyers for the whistleblower, whose claims sparked the impeachment inquiry, are expressing “serious concerns” for their client’s personal safety.

“The events of the past week have heightened our concerns that our client’s identity will be disclosed publicly and that, as a result, our client will be put in harm’s way,” writes one member of the legal team. who also claims "certain individuals" have issued a $50,000 bounty for information leading to exposure of the whistleblower's identity.

"The Fake Whistleblower complaint is not holding up," President Trump tweeted Monday. "It is mostly about the call to the Ukrainian President which, in the name of transparency, I immediately released to Congress & the public. The Whistleblower knew almost nothing, its 2ND HAND description of the call is a fraud!"

The president's latest salvo on Twitter follows a weekend tweet where he claimed the whistleblower had representing his phone conversation with the Ukranian president in “a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way.”

[Source: ABC News online]