The Most Damning Passages From Trump's Ukraine Call 'Transcript'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump has claimed repeatedly that his July 25th call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was totally innocuous. “The conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect,” he told reporters on Sunday. “It was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation.”

A written record of the conversation allegedly at the center of a whistleblower complaint filed by a national intelligence official tells a different story. (The declassified readout bares a disclaimer identifying it as “not a verbatim transcript.”) Released by the White House Wednesday morning, the readout not only does not exonerate the president, it is extraordinarily damning, and should provide plenty of fodder for House Democrats, who on Tuesday announced the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry into the president.

Here are some of the most damning passages:


When Zelensky brings up military aid, Trump asks him for a favor

Trump ordered a freeze on Congress-approved military aid for Ukraine shortly before speaking with Zelensky on July 25th, and many have feared that Trump was attempting to extort Zelensky, offering to un-freeze the aid on the condition he dug up dirt on Joe Biden. Trump has insisted there was no “quid pro quo,” but what the transcript reveals is about as close as it comes.

Trump also invokes former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and implies that his investigation began in Ukraine.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-ukraine-call-transcript-exonerate-890253/

[Hoyt]

1. Don't see how anyone could interpret that as anything but a shakedown to find dirt on opposition.

I bet even Mueller would say, "it's obvious, there's not choice but to Impeach him and convict in Senate."