Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump

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(11-11-2019, 03:26 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No he does not.  The info he cited was from sources with "direct knowledge" of the call, not 2nd hand.

The people he cited (although in most of the instances he doesn't name specific people and just says "an official" or something similar) had "direct knowledge" of the info, but the whistleblower himself did not have "direct knowledge" of the info - according to his own statement to start of the report. That makes what the whistleblower had 2nd hand information.

My friend Bob has direct knowledge of WWII as he fought in the war. Bob tells me a personal war story. Is the info contained in his war story that I wrote down in my book report my "direct knowledge" or 2nd hand info?

Let's use the Webster dictionary definition of "secondhand" since words matter and so we can all be on the same page.