Womp, Womp...here's the list of Republicans who agreed to release the Ukraine call readout

[Miles Archer]

White House counsel Pat Cipollone invited several of Trump’s fiercest Republican defenders to the White House yesterday morning to review the notes from the call before they were released to the public. This allowed them to coordinate talking points before the document was blasted out.

"The sense was that the transcript didn’t come close to living up to the hype Democrats had set up, and didn’t remotely approach impeachable," a source familiar with the White House meeting told Axios.



Attendees included Sens. David Perdue, Ron Johnson, and Shelly Moore Capito, as well as Reps. Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, John Ratcliffe, Matt Gaetz and Mark Meadows, according to Johnson.

But on the Democratic side, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said the material reflects "a classic Mafia-like shakedown."

https://www.axios.com/ukraine-memo-transcript-white-house-reaction-68b1b713-8eb9-4429-9007-a802bac8a7ae.html

[Roland99]

1. Because they've all been so deep for so long in criminal and unethical behavior that it was normal!!

[napi21]

2. I believe what Chairman Schiff meant by Mafia -like means the manner the Pres. used to

request assistance from UK. The request wasn't "said in a plain directive", it was inferred immediately after the UK's statement that they were almost ready to purchase more Javelins. That's the way the mafia requests things. Both parties understand what's expected of them.