Grassley Deviates from Other Senate Republicans and Supports Ukraine Whistleblower

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a long-time advocate of whistleblower protection, has broken ranks with some of his Republican colleagues by siding with the confidential whistleblower of the now-infamous July call between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Grassley issued a press release which stated, “We should always work to respect whistleblowers’ requests for confidentiality. No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistleblower first and carefully following up on the facts.” In regard to the provenance of the information, he wrote, “Complaints based on second-hand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work to get at the facts and evaluate the claim’s credibility.”