BREAKING: The Ukraine-Trump transcript is out

The White House has released the transcript of President Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky from July. There was no mention of US aid, thus there appears to be no indication of a quid pro quo, or a "you do this for that." In other words, there is no indication of Trump leveraging military aid in order to force Zelensky to do his bidding.

The transcript, which was declassified the previous day, is considered to be a solid rendition of the July 25th phone call which took place from 9:03 a.m. to 9:33 a.m.

The call begins with Trump congratulating Zelensky on his winning the election. The conversation eventually broaches the subject of Joe and Hunter Biden.

“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump said. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.”

The Democrats have accused Trump of pressuring Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden even before reading the transcript and the whistleblower's complaint. [This tactic is in the spirit of Nancy Pelosi's saying of Obamacare that Congress should pass it so that we can know what's in it.]

The transcript shows Zelensky suggesting to Trump the Biden matter would be looked into by a new prosecutor. “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.”

The president told Zelensky he wanted his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General Bill Barr to get involved.

“I will have Mr. Giuliani give you call and I’m also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom if it. I’m sure you will figure it out,” he said.

Before the transcript was released, Democrats accused Trump of improperly using his office to pressure another country to investigate one of his chief Democratic rivals. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has repeatedly referred to the impeachment push as a partisan “witch-hunt.”

No Democrat, however, mentioned the Steele dossier, created by a former foreign spy, Christopher Steele, and paid for by the Clinton campaign with the purpose of finding "dirt" on Trump.

 No Democrat mentioned the "hot mic" moment when then President Obama told Dmitry Medvedev that after the 2012 election, he would have "more flexibility."

The country has become dangerously polarized.



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Trump to release unredacted phone call transcript and perhaps whistleblower complaint

Fourth down or white power sign? Or neither?

President Trump announced Tuesday that he has now authorized the release of the transcript of the phone conversation he had with Ukrainian President and former comedian Volodymyr Zelensky.

There has also been credible talk that he will also authorized the release of the whistleblower complaint as the Democrats are jumping up and down like rabid monkeys calling for impeachment inquiries--some are even calling for impeachment with no evidence of wrongdoing, unlike the "hot mic" former president Obama had with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev when Obama told him that he would have more flexibility after the 2012 election.

Trump took to Twitter and posted:

“I…have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine. You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo!”

The very thought that Trump is willingly releasing the transcript seems to indicate that there is no there there. So there, Nancy and Chuck.

The result of this latest political show may yet bring to light exactly what took place with former VP Joe Biden who even bragged that he withheld money from Ukraine to force them to remove a judge from a trial of the same company Biden's son Hunter worked for and made more money than he is worth.

It's never dull in the Trump presidency.

Here's the thing: if there's a quo with the quid, then Trump is in trouble, but it seems highly doubtful that this is the case.


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