Posted on 09/25/2019 1:48:21 PM PDT by Heartlander
The White House has released a transcript of the conversation President Trump had on July 25th with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky. This is the conversation billed as so shocking, such an egregious abuse of power, it demands the removal of the Trump from office. “Treasonous,” some shouted. “A betrayal,” said Nancy Pelosi — before she even knew what the president had said.
Well, here it is. Read it for yourself. But take a shot of expresso. It’ll help keep you awake. Anything shocking? Anything impeachable? See anything that rises even to the level of “Tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election”?
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
A brief summary: Our president schmoozes their president. Their president schmoozes our president. Trump gripes that European countries should do more to help Ukraine. Zelensky agrees. He says he wants to drain the swamp in his country. And speaking of corruption …
Trump makes vague reference to the Russia Hoax. “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
He specifically references CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is the progressive tech company that the DNC brought in to examine the DNC computers. (Brought in via Perkins Coie — the law firm Hillary Clinton used to pay for the Steele Dossier.) The DNC refused to give FBI and Homeland Security access. The FBI never accessed the server and admitted in a court case, they never even read CrowdStrike’s report. Only a redacted draft.
CrowdStrike blamed hackers working for Russia for grabbing the DNC emails that WikiLeaks would later publish. Part of the Russia hoax was insisting Trump’s campaign knew about the hack and had teamed with Russia. Again, the same people paid for the claim Russia was behind the DNC hack and the Russia Collusion narrative. Funny how that works.
Trump mentions how “They say a lot of [the Russia Hoax] started with Ukraine.” This is true. As we wrote about the other day, the Obama Administration asked Ukraine for dirt involving Paul Manafort … right as Manafort was starting to hang out with the Trump campaign. And Ukraine was actively working with the DNC, which, as Donna Brazille said in her book, was completely being run by Hillary’s campaign by that time.
Zelensky assures Trump the matter’s important to him as well. In fact, he recalled the Ukrainian ambassador, who was involved in the 2016 nonsense. He’ll replace him with a new one.
There’s a lot of talk about Rudy Giuliani.
Then the conversation briefly does turn to Biden and his son. Specifically: “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to found out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution [of his son], so if you can look into it. It sounds horrible to me.”‘
Zelensky promises his new prosecutor will look into it. “He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue, the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and we will work on the investigation of the case.”
In other words, the case involves Ukraine corruption and American corruption. Trump volunteers Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to be point-men. You want to drain the swamp? That’s exactly what it looks like.
Finally, there’s a lot more schmoozing. The ol’ “I’ve got friends in Ukraine!” “I’ve got friends in the United States! Can’t wait until we can meet!” “Whenever you want to come to the White House, feel free to call!” diplomatic song and dance.
And that’s it. That’s your big threat to democracy.
Remember the whistleblower who’s complaint started all this. The whistleblower’s complaint was taken seriously.
The Department of Justice looked into it because the Intelligence Community’s inspector general cited a “potential violation of campaign finance law.” Even though neither the inspector general nor the whistleblower “had firsthand knowledge of the conversation.” The DOJ’s conclusion: There’s no there there.
Relying on established procedures set forth in the justice manual, the department’s criminal division reviewed the official record of the call and determined based on the facts and applicable law that there was no campaign finance violence and that no further action was warranted. All relevant components of the department agreed with this legal conclusion, and the department has concluded this matter.
DOJ spokesperson Kerri Kupec also stated that Barr had never spoken to Trump about the Ukraine investigating Biden. Nor did Trump ask Barr to contact Ukraine or Giuliani.
Meanwhile, call it a technicality, but DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel also determined that from their POV, the whistleblower complaint failed on two points. The complaint needed to involve a member of the intelligence community. Trump is not. Second, the activity did not pertain to ongoing intelligence operations. Thus the “complaint did not meet the standard of an ‘urgent concern’.”
However, more telling, as Fox News first reported, the Inspector General discovered the whistleblower had “some indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the Complaintant in favor of a rival political candidate.”
So our Top Ten Quick Takeaways:
In an honest world, the Democrats would apologize. At the very least, they’d admit there’s nothing unusual about the call. In a sane world, Democrats would just walk away. Or as they have done with so many things the past two years that have also proven to be false, pretend they never made a huge deal of it. Go onto the next scandal that will topple Trump.
They don’t. As expected. Adam Schiff calls it a “classic mafia-like shakedown.” Elizabeth Warren, whose whole schtick is fighting the marriage of big money and politics, isn’t interested in Biden’s blackmail of Ukraine, or Biden’s son cashing in on his connections. Peter Schweitzer lays out 7 essential facts that should have Warren flipping her wigwam. Instead, she calls the transcript a “smoking gun.”
Facts? We don’t need no stinking facts. Nancy Pelosi said, “Trump asked a foreign government to help him in his political campaign.” (He did no such thing.) This after admitting she still hadn’t read the transcript.
So drumbeats for impeachment continue. “I don’t know what the timeline will look like,” says Adam “I’ve Got Proof of Russian Collusion” Schiff, “except that we all feel a sense of urgency.”
Not because the president did anything he shouldn’t have done. Urgency because, day-by-day, they know 2020 is slipping away.
Meanwhile, President Zelensky and President Trump met up this afternoon at the United Nations in New York City. Said Zelensky, “It’s better to be on TV instead of the phone …. ” And more to the point, “nobody pushed me” to investigate Biden and his son.
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Democrats want to discredit by impeachment before the real dirt on them becomes public.. like Crowdstrike.
An issue has been made about Trump persisting 8 times
to Zelensky regarding the Biden scandal. Im not seeing
that. Who knows what?
I don’t get this.
We had the Mueller investigation and lots of other chatter about the emoluments clause and other alleged crimes of trump.
But now, instead of any of that being grounds for impeachment, now we are going to impeach a president over a phone call????
It’s nothing but the Dems trying to distract the people from the real corruption of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
“An issue has been made about Trump persisting 8 times
to Zelensky regarding the Biden scandal.”
That originated from an article from The Wall Street Journal a few days back. Was proven with the release of the transcript today to be completely erroneous.
Thanks for the the 411, rob!.
Trump gives out a little line, the reels them in.
The Dems have committed a criminal act against all America since by this action they have effectively canceled any future talks between any president and a foreign leader. It is an act of sedition and or treason in the least! This time they have really gone too far.
Except he/she/it is NOT a whistle blower in fact since everything is hearsay.
So who is the real culprit?
The MO is EXACTLY the same as Comey's pass off to his friend.
Never Trumpers are moaning about seeking info on an American politician from a foreign leader as being political and therefore wrong. How about POTUS seeking such info as an investigation into the CRIMINAL behavior of that politician? How about someone asking if that is copasetic
Get with the program (pogrom?)! That was at least a week ago. Today's words are Ukraine and Inquiry. Got that?
(/sarc, of course)
You know, the one who agreed that Epstein committed "suicide" in his cell, that all the cameras watching him miraculously malfunctioned simultaneously, and the fact that his multiple snapped neck vertebrae was all self-inflicted.
I am sure old Bagpipes is gonna nail the coup plotters and the D.C. Criminals any day now.
Any.
Day.
Now...…..
Oh. The transcript is not here, either. I’ll keep looking.
Mark Levin read the transcript. It was nothing more than a comfortable conversation. Mutual respect. WTH are the Dems talking about?!
They, the Dems, were the ones threatening another government’s official.
“”Intelligence Community’s inspector general cited a “potential violation of campaign finance law.””
I’ve been paying attention but this is the first time I’ve heard anything about the phone call possibly being a potential violation of campaign finance law. Where on earth did that come from?
How come Epstein isn’t front and center of the news anymore? Poor guy - no one cares if he committed suicide or was murdered, I guess! I guess no one cares that’s he’s dead either. Something to be covered up so they’re hoping the mystery stays buried? Was the president in NYC that night? Maybe the demon-rats should launch an investigation into his whereabouts that night!
Shame on all of the media blowhards for not putting the link to the transcript out there for all to see. It’s the best evidence that President Trump did nothing wrong.
Thanks to One America News Network for the link to the transcript.
Read the full unclassified memorandum of the telephone conversation here.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
Give OANN a hit. Follow the link.
President Trump, Ukrainian President Zelensky Call Transcript Released
https://www.oann.com/breaking-president-trump-ukrainian-president-zelensky-call-transcript-released/
NBC and CBS are actually telling their viewers on the evening news that Trump said like a mob boss, “you have a nice country, it’d be too bad if something happened to it” and that it was only released *tonight* so the demwits are just now being able to read it.
Strange, I read it online at about 9:30 before we took the dog to the vet. FOX was saying about the same time that it had been released for 45 minutes but Nancy hadn’t read it. This afternoon, I can’t remember who but someone else was whining he hadn’t read it. Geez, do these clowns not know how to turn on the tv, their computer, their phones or ask their aides to get a copy? Or perhaps they think We, the People are that dumb.
What a complete joke. We are living in bizarre times. This country is pretty much ruined.
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