Whistleblower's Lawyers Say Trump Has Endangered Their Client as President Publicly Threatens 'Big Consequences'

Lawyers representing the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s leader warned in a letter over the weekend that Trump has put the safety of their client at risk by describing the anonymous individual as a traitor and issuing open threats of retaliation.

“The purpose of this letter is to formally notify you of serious concerns we have regarding our client’s personal safety,” Andrew Bakaj, the lead attorney for the whistleblower, wrote (pdf) to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. “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.”

 “We expect this situation to worsen, and to become even more dangerous for our client and any other whistleblowers.”
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Bakaj cited Trump’s suggestion behind closed doors last week that the people who informed the whistleblower should be executed as an example of the president endangering the safety of his client.

“The fact that the president’s statement was directed to ‘the person that gave the whistleblower the information’ does nothing to assuage our concerns for our client’s safety,” wrote Bakaj. “Unfortunately, we expect this situation to worsen, and to become even more dangerous for our client and any other whistleblowers, as Congress seeks to investigate this matter.”

The letter was sent hours before Trump took to Twitter Sunday night to accuse the person who informed the whistleblower of “spying on the U.S. president” and threaten “big consequences.”

“Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called ‘whistleblower,’ represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way,” Trump tweeted. “In addition, I want to meet not only my accuser, who presented SECOND and THIRD HAND INFORMATION, but also the person who illegally gave this information.”