[Scott from the Left Coast]

Wait a minute...wait a minute...why is Trump even on the phone with Raffensperger? Does he not know after four years what will happen, what HAS to happen if he does this?

After four years does he not understand who and what he dealing with? Talking to Raffensperger at all is either extreme hubris or extreme stupidity, or both. Does he not understand the game?

You don’t talk to people who want nothing other than you - dead. If he wanted to communicate with Raffensperger, he should start by fire-bombing his home with his family in it. That would communicate. Otherwise you are just offering to be their butt boy...again. No wonder the government class has run circles around him, kicking his ass for four years. This is just stupid.

[spetznaz]

I believe that 90% of the people around President Trump don’t want him there. Maybe not 90% - maybe 50% is a more realistic number. Either way, he needs to really be careful who he opens up to. Even in the SCOTUS he really only has Alito and Thomas, who can be counted on to at least be consistently Conservative. Even his three nominees failed him.

This must be why he has his family around him - at least he knows he can trust those people. Just imagine if he had a supportive government? What he would have done? He spent his first three years fighting attack from the Dems, and now even the Republicans are throwing barbs.

[enumerated]

I listened to the four minute edited version - no doubt edited to try and make him look bad - but all he does is tell the truth as he sees it.

This leaked call doesn’t hurt President Trump in the least - any more than the Ukraine call.

In fact, I’d call it “a perfect call”. :-)