There’s so much we don’t know about the whistleblower complaint concerning President Donald Trump. But here are four things we do know:
First, it seems that an experienced intelligence official was so deeply disturbed by Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine to feel the need to blow the whistle.
Second, the inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who was appointed by Trump and has long experience on national security issues, found the whistleblower’s concern to be legitimate and urgent.
Third, the whistleblower complaint came after Trump and his associates hounded Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to undertake a corruption investigation involving Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.