Social media goes wild after Chuck Schumer's new anti-Trump 'tip line' blows up in his face
By Sarah Ewall-Wice
Daily Mail
Feb 11, 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters protesting with other Democratic lawmakers outside the Treasury Department on January 4
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer launched a corruption tip website for whistleblowers but the effort backfired spectacularly as conservatives swarmed it to report Democrats.
The New York lawmaker announced the portal in a post on X where he called for public servants to fill out a form if they have a complaint to report.
It comes as the Trump administration has been working to shutter federal agencies, shrink the workforce and freeze federal funding in a series of moves that have caused chaos and confusion for workers across the government.
'I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower,' Schumer wrote.
More than 30,000 people responded to his post with many users blasting Democrats with their own accusations.
Senator Ted Cruz was among those to get in on it with his own repost on X.
'Great! I wanna report: Joe Biden Kamala Harris Chuck Schumer And the entire corrupt Democrat party that weaponized & abused the federal government for the past four years,' the Texas lawmaker wrote.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reported Schumer for corruption on Schumer's corruption tip website
Multiple conservative commentators and MAGA loyalists also chimed in online to report Schumer.
Several pointed to a speech the senator made back in March 2020 where he 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 some made accusations against Democrats, other made jokes about getting ousted from jobs for clearly made-up outlandish behavior.
One X user said they wanted to file a criminal complaint about being subjected to the videos of Democrats protesting outside buildings across Washington, D.C.
It included a video of Schumer and Congresswoman Maxine Waters chanting 'we will win' as they protested last week.
Others posted about wasteful government spending as they slammed Democratic lawmakers for the debt and massive budgets despite past spending bills passed with bipartisan support.
One user even posted an image previously shared by Schumer himself where he was grilling but put cheese on an uncooked burger. The caption for the image said the senator can't grill.
Senate Minority Leader Schumer's post about a whistleblower tip line
Senator Ted Cruz responding to Schumer launching a whistleblower tip line
The whistleblower form itself was set up to link to the Senate Democrats' webpage.
The caption read that whistleblowers 'are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable.'
Users could then use the form to report complaints about retaliation, wasteful spending, fraud, criminal activity or other.
But thousands of X users signaled they were swamping the form using fake names and contact information.
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