But when actually examining the new report, it is clear what this story really is: a trolling operation, meant to muddy the waters and cast suspicions on the person whose report of President Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine set off the current controversy — perhaps just to claim that they are now under some kind of investigation themselves.

(In the interest of helping the reader to keep track of what exactly is going on here, let’s call this key person the original whistleblower — or “OWB.”)

Fox reported on this new complaint, filed with the same intelligence community inspector general by an individual whom Fox reports is a “holder of a top-secret SCI security clearance and has served in government.” The attorney for this new complainant claims that it’s “not about politics for my client — it's whistleblower-on-whistleblower,” and that this is about making sure that “government ethics rules are being complied with government-wide.”

On his radio show, Sean Hannity also promoted this new whistleblower complaint — which he called a “real whistleblower report,” in contrast to the complaint from “the old, phony whistleblower” — and teased an upcoming interview with the attorney involved on his Fox TV show.