On Wednesday, Axios reported that attorneys representing the intelligence community whistleblower at the heart of the Ukraine scandal are pushing back on a key line of attack from President Donald Trump’s defenders: that the whistleblower is somehow a politically connected person out for revenge on Trump.

This pushback comes after reporting that the whistleblower had “some type of professional relationship” with one of the Democratic candidates for president.

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The whistleblower, they wrote, did indeed work with one of the candidates, but not in a political capacity, and has “come into contact with presidential candidates from both parties in their roles as elected officials – not as candidates.”

They added that the whistleblower “voluntarily provided relevant career information” to the intelligence community inspector general and that the complaint was found to be “urgent and credible.”

“[T]he whistleblower is not the story,” they wrote. “To date, virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other sources. For that reason the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.”