Social media goes wild after Chuck Schumer's new anti-Trump 'tip line' blows up in his face

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By SARAH EWALL-WICE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER

Published: 11:44 EST, 11 February 2025 | Updated: 12:35 EST, 11 February 2025

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer launched a corruption extremity website for whistleblowers but the effort backfired spectacularly arsenic conservatives swarmed it to study Democrats.   

The New York lawmaker announced the portal successful a station connected X wherever helium called for nationalist servants to capable retired a signifier if they person a ailment to report.

It comes arsenic the Trump medication has been moving to shutter national agencies, shrink the workforce and frost national backing successful a bid of moves that person caused chaos and disorder for workers crossed the government.   

'I’m launching a caller portal for anyone who wants to exposure corruption, abuses of power, and threats to nationalist information with the ineligible protections of being a whistleblower,' Schumer wrote.

More than 30,000 radical responded to his station with galore users blasting Democrats with their ain accusations. 

Senator Ted Cruz was among those to get successful connected it with his ain repost connected X.  

'Great! I wanna report: Joe Biden Kamala Harris Chuck Schumer And the full corrupt Democrat enactment that weaponized & abused the national authorities for the past 4 years,' the Texas lawmaker wrote. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) protesting with different Democratic lawmakers extracurricular the Treasury Department connected January 4

Multiple blimpish commentators and MAGA loyalists besides chimed successful online to study Schumer.  

Several pointed to a code the legislator made backmost successful March 2020 wherever helium said Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had 'released the whirlwind' and should 'pay the price.'

The commentators accused Schumer of threatening the justices for his speech. 

While immoderate made accusations against Democrats, different made jokes astir getting ousted from jobs for intelligibly made-up outlandish behavior. 

One X idiosyncratic said they wanted to record a transgression ailment astir being subjected to the videos of Democrats protesting extracurricular buildings crossed Washington, D.C.

It included a video of Schumer and Congresswoman Maxine Waters chanting 'we volition win' arsenic they protested past week.

Others posted astir wasteful authorities spending arsenic they slammed Democratic lawmakers for the indebtedness and monolithic budgets contempt past spending bills passed with bipartisan support. 

One idiosyncratic adjacent posted an representation antecedently shared by Schumer himself wherever helium was grilling but enactment food connected an uncooked burger. The caption for the representation said the legislator can't grill. 

Senate Minority Leader Schumer's station astir a whistleblower extremity line

Senator Ted Cruz responding to Schumer launching a whistleblower extremity line

The whistleblower signifier itself was acceptable up to nexus to the Senate Democrats' webpage. 

The caption work that whistleblowers 'are a captious portion of Congressional oversight to clasp the medication accountable.'

Users could past usage the signifier to study complaints astir retaliation, wasteful spending, fraud, transgression enactment oregon other.  

But thousands of X users signaled they were swamping the signifier utilizing fake names and interaction information.

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