The mainstream media is brazenly disregarding evidence the whistleblower – whose complaint sparked a House investigation into President Donald Trump's phone conversation about U.S. aid to Ukraine – is a Democratic operative, a top Republican official charges.

"The silence is deafening," Steve Guest, the Republican National Committee's Rapid Response Director, told Newsmax on Thursday.

"The whistleblower is a Democrat who had a professional tie to a 2020 Democrat [and] coordinated and took guidance from [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Adam Schiff's staff. Schiff lied about it and his staff recommended attorneys for the so-called whistleblower."

In addition, Guest says, the whistleblower's lawyers worked for [former Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper, [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer, and donated to Joe Biden's presidential campaign. As well, one of the whistleblower's attorneys" is allegedly member of the #Resistance, an anti-Trump movement.