Posted on 09/25/2019 5:14:45 PM PDT by karpov
The White House on Wednesday released the transcript of President Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the news is that Mr. Trump was telling the truth about it. The conversation was largely routine diplomacy, and even the reference to Joe Biden was less than promoted by the press. Good luck persuading Americans that this is an impeachable offense.
The five-page transcript shows that Mr. Trump called to congratulate Mr. Zelensky on his party’s victory in Parliament. After niceties, Mr. Trump waxes on as he often does that the U.S. “spend[s] a lot of effort and a lot of time” on Ukraine, while complaining that European countries don’t do their share. At no point does Mr. Trump threaten a withdrawal of U.S. aid to Ukraine.
Mr. Trump does ask for a “favor”—that Ukraine look at 2016 election meddling. “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike,” he says, referring to the company that investigated the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee.
He also disparages former Special Counsel Robert Mueller—no surprise there—and notes that “they say a lot of it started with Ukraine.” Mr. Trump is clearly still sore about the attempt by the Hillary Clinton campaign to dig up foreign dirt on him, but there is nothing wrong with asking a foreign head of state to investigate meddling in U.S. elections.
Only after that does Mr. Zelensky mention Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has been publicly urging the Ukrainians to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s activities in Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky says he is “hoping very much” that the former New York mayor comes to Ukraine. He promises that all “investigations will be done openly and candidly.”
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Occurs to me: speaking to a “english as a second language” person, Trump may have adjusted some phrasing to better understood by a Slavic speaker. This may confuse progressives.
Thanks for the encouraging video.
Appreciated hearing our leadership team telling it like it is.
Thanks again for sharing it with me.
There was nothing in the transcript that Democrats can use. Those of you who haven’t read it should do so. It’s very short and easy to read.
Read the full unclassified memorandum of the telephone conversation here.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
I would be interested in hearing what the response is.
YW, I thought it was pretty great too! It’s about time the Republicans banned together and said they’ve had enough. They called for Pelosi to step down. Loved that!
He said zero wrong and zero could be misunderstood. . The Ukrainian President said he wanted to drain the swamp of corruption in the Ukraine which opened up the conversation about Biden having the special prosecutor fired. It was a natural progression in the conversation.
The Democrats control the House, there is nothing the GOP can do to stop impeachment. It won’t go anywhere in the Senate.
The Democrats control the House, there is nothing the GOP can do to stop impeachment. It won’t go anywhere in the Senate.
The GOP control the Senate. They could make it rain subpoenas on coup participants and Biden’s crackhead spawn. That they are not should be your clue that they are party to it. The goal of the Deep State is to run out the clock on POTUS. This is without a doubt a bipartisan effort.
Bump
After this stunt what is needed is to take a wrecking ball to the CIA and FBI. Turn their responsibilities over to the Military (CIA) and FBI to State Police. They have abused the American People for the last time. We are fools if we allow them to continue.
No fecal extrusion; Mr. Holmes!
I hope they don't!
Let's speed up the process to REALLY let the Dems step in it up to their necks before the election!!
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