In a Washington, D.C. television interview on Wednesday, Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) emphasized his support for the whistleblower who initiated the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Gray’s D.C. bureau asked Jones about impeachment twice in the interview, which lasted almost three and a half minutes in total.
While Alabama’s junior senator outlined that it was premature for him or any of his Senate colleagues to jump to a conclusion on whether they would vote to convict Trump on impeachment charges — should any ultimately come up from the House, Jones went out of his way to stress one point unprompted.
“The one thing I will tell you that concerns me the most though, is the continued drumbeats to make public the whistleblower and have this whistleblower complaint,” Jones said.
“I’m probably the only one in the Congress –certainly I’m the only one in the United States Senate — that has represented whistleblowers. And I’ve represented people on the other side of a whistleblower complaint,” he added. “That whistleblower law is there for a reason: to encourage people to come forward without reprisals, and no one is above the law — including the president of the United States. And the whistleblower complaint is nothing more than a roadmap, and it’s going to be up to the House, maybe the Senate, to see if the dots are connected through evidence, not just the whistleblower’s statement.”
You can watch the interview here.
Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
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