F or a time in September and October, the whistleblower who flagged their concerns about a July call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky found themselves at the centre of what has become a rapidly evolving, Democrat-led impeachment inquiry.

This was what many Democrats in congress had been waiting for, apparent evidence of the US president calling on another nation’s leader to interfere in the 2020 election by asking him to investigate the family of a political rival in Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump took the option to release a memo containing some record of the call, saying he had nothing to hide. However, the memo is not as clear cut as he believes.