Trump promised nothing to Volodymyr Zelensky.

[guillaumeb]

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In the limited sense that in all likelihood, Trump did not explicitly promise money to Ukraine as a reward for opening yet another investigation into the already disproven nonsense about Biden and the Ukraine.

When crooks meet, often what is asked for is cloaked in coded language. And that is done because the crooks know that their conversations might be recorded.

My opinion is that the thoroughly corrupted leaders of the GOP will decide that the appropriate meme here is to claim that only if there is a "smoking gun" of direct statements will they admit that Trump is a crook.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Yes, well we all knew yesterday that today's 'transcript' would be a 'limited hangout' where Trump

tries to frame the entire 'story' as being 'what's in the transcript' ... which is NOT REALLY A TRANSCRIPT to begin with as it's not even being portrayed as a verbatim accounting, which means it's not a transcript. It's 'notes'.

Congress needs to HEAR FROM THE WHISTLEBLOWER, period.

What we've gotten so far is IQ45's best job at 'framing the issue'. Let's see what ELSE the whistleblower has.

[guillaumeb]

2. His supporters will remain supporters.

Unless polling and citizen pressure convince McConnell and the others to abandon Trump.

[Vinca]

3. For starters, that was a memo and not a transcript so we don't know. Plus, we don't know what

has been said on previous calls. He apparently didn't bother to explain who Biden was, so it appears this wasn't the first chitchat about Joe and Hunter.

[guillaumeb]

4. This is my opinion, and based on how crooks often use coded language.

Much like the GOP uses coded language to appeal to their racist base.