Mediamatters Says Complaint is not hearsay because of more hearsay.

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Right-wing media have latched on to the assertion that the complaint is based on “hearsay” and therefore not credible because the whistleblower did not witness related events firsthand, even though the complaint referenced “more than half a dozen U.S. officials” who acted as witnesses to “various facts related to this effort.” The whistleblower also admitted that while they were “not a direct witness to most of the event described,” they found “accounts of these events to be credible because, in almost all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent with one another.” The whistleblower also referenced media reports on the topic, asserting in the complaint that “a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly.”

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even though the complaint referenced “more than half a dozen U.S. officials” who acted as witnesses to “various facts related to this effort.”

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The whistleblower also admitted that while they were “not a direct witness to most of the event described,” they found “accounts of these events to be credible because, in almost all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent with one another.”

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The whistleblower also referenced media reports on the topic, asserting in the complaint that “a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly.

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