The Trump administration has released a White House transcript of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the heart of a whistleblower complaint.
Among other things, the transcript shows Trump discussing former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Here’s the ‘pressure’ Trump put on Zelensky:
“The other thing, 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. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.”
Earlier in the conversation, Trump says: “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. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”
Read below:
Either the @WSJ report from Saturday that Trump specifically pressured re: Biden 8 times is incorrect or this transcript-style summary of the call elides 7 of the 8 times https://t.co/xoU7r6bxgrhttps://t.co/ljDDcFjllt
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) September 25, 2019
Meanwhile, the left is already taking issue with calling this a ‘transcript,’ as is it is a “memorandum” – which would suggest it’s not a verbatim account of the conversation.
Dear news colleagues: The memo just released is a summary from note takers. It cautions that it is NOT a verbatim transcript of the conversation. So why do stories call it a “transcript”? Accuracy requires a better description.
— Kathleen Carroll (@kathleencarrll) September 25, 2019
'Transcript': ? a typed copy of dictated or recorded material
'Memorandum': ? an informal report or message
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 25, 2019
Regardless, Trump’s odds of impeachment by the end of Trump’s first term has taken a precipitous nosedive according over the past 24 hours, since Trump announced that he would release the transcript and whistleblower complaint.
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Of course. It was another YUGE nothing-burger courtesy of the Democrats.
Why don’t they just focus on running the campaigns of their candidates and hope one wins, you know, the good ol’ fashioned way aka fair elections? Surely it’s not because they fear Donald Trump will defeat whoever they nominate in 2020, is it?
It was a hail Mary pass.
Democrats HATE Mary, and Joseph too.
(Don’t even think about mentioning the name of Jesus Christ either. The name they hate the most.)
isn’t jc’s middle name effin ?
most liberals say it like that–
Seriously? I can’t come in from working in the flowerbeds, check the news and not have yet ANOTHER attempt to outmaneuver the outmaneuverer get outmaneuvered?
How long before Pelosi comes out with that pursed lip prattle about how we must impeach the president to find out if there is an impeachable offense.
I can’t explain how deeply I despise Nancy Pelosi (a personal dislike from talking to someone on her staff almost 30 years ago! It is true, Maya… you do not forget when someone belittles you for no reason.) Well, after this past year, perhaps I can. At least I can laugh about it.
Congress started making it their business to get themselves and their families rich while in Congress, in case none of you noticed. So, it is natural for the Bidens and the Obamas to have business entwine with familial interest outside the political arena. But, for those NOT of the Socialist dual-caste system (those in power have the interest; others do not), Business is Business, which is the business of the American President to promote.
Trump is at an advantage because he knows that certain acts are not legal or ethical in business. He very carefully phrases comments “If it is something you can do…” well that leaves it all up to Ukraine, doesn’t it?
As for the notes? I got very skilled at taking verbatim notes of General’s and Various VIP speakers comments at meetings. I would have put my notes up against a recording almost any day.
He outmaneuvered them so far on this. Good Show!
Back to flowers and mulching.
MG: Yup, amazing how those poor congress critters, those selfless and self-effacing souls can enter politics as relative paupers and retire worth multi-millions, almost without exception. Why, just look at Nancy, a person for whom I also share a deep loathing, and how filthy rich she and her husband have become and how certain legislations exempted him from following minimum wage laws. Most recently Obama rose from obscurity as a community organizer and part time adjunct college professor to become a multi-millionaire on a salary of $400k per annum. Miracles do indeed happen, praise the Lawd.
Bathhouse’s wife was pulling in a tad over 300K for a no show political job as “diversity director” at a hospital after she lost her law license, yet these two assholes claimed they still owed on student loans when he was running for President. Eleven years later he has four homes/estates including one at $14 million on Marxist Vineyard.
Damn, I wish the oceans would rise.
Tsunami is faster.
Serfs up!
Want odds on whether the halfrican or his/its better half ever paid off their student loans?
@MG
What an excellent-accurate-perfectly expressed comment
you have made. It is a good thing you know your way around
the doings of gov.
Kutos on your gallinaceous endeavors. I think you have Pelosi all wrong, she is stalling for Trump. I believe she cut a deal with him and now she is deep throating the WH, keeping them up to speed on the maneuvers of congress. I would also offer that it Henry the K was Deep Throat and not that FBI guy, keeping the pressure on Nixon gave him the freedom to do things his way. Nancy is no spring chicken, she knows she can do more if she has Trump’s balls in her pocket than if she has Biden in the WH.
Definitely more right than wrong.
The delay and the resources that must be committed to impeachment will so conveniently disable any chance at Wall Building, Swamp Draining, or anything else of consequence before late 2020.
How fucking convenient!
Winnie, these weak dicks couldn’t conspiracy theorize themselves out of a paper bag. The Democrat strategy is conducting a fishing expedition called an impeachment inquiry to hobble the president’s reelection campaign.
In turn, Trumpolini has been floating balloons hinting at war somewhere. He just has to be real careful to make it look like he couldn’t avoid becoming a war president – don’t change horses mid-war and shit.
Of course, the Paks and the Indians threatening war won’t help anybody so we won’t hear about that until somebody takes a side.
(wet paper bag)
The old hag is biding her time but had to do something-anything-to get the brats in the peanut gallery back in their place. Whatever it is she has, she-like Trump-will wait for what they feel is the perfect moment to unleash their last salvo. Fight to the end with winner take all.
interesting take on kissinger–
is that an ec original or has it been out there?
It’s a suspicion lurking since the 70’s. Like, why would you name a snitch deep throat if it wasn’t a reference to his deep voice? How could an FBI agent accept being called deep throat when Linda Lovelace was a cocksucker? Would you accept that moniker? Nixon didn’t like K but he needed him for his elite connections.
“…When you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow…” – Attributed to several people and sources
I made real progress. How’s impeachment ximing?
Nice work!
Am proud of it, preacher man. Has been “my” solo project over the summer. My husband’s is on the left… that 30 x 40 foot barn/workshop is wired/plumbed for a kitchen and half-bath AND it has 1 inch foam insulation and regular fiberglass insulation inside of that.
If pondside gets cold, there is always inside the barn.
(I laid the PVC drain 50 feet to the treeline with lime field myself five years ago when it was built… NO KIDDING! That was before I got sick. Or wait a doggone minute… maybe all that hard work MADE me sick.)
Where that flowerbed is dug there is where our gray water line from the kitchen and baths drains… I put the Hostas there to help soak up the water and hold the erosion. It is my Hillbilly Water Diversion Plan.
Are you the groundskeeper for the local school?
Is it my imagination or is there a evil face looking at me from the sky just my side of the barn?
OH NO… I think it is the ghost of Quetzacoatl!
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all
You ol’ softie.
Post the mvid.
Original, not Juice.
The alpha males might cringe,
but…
He is playing with them now. Much akin to a kitten chasing a laser spot…..
Musket,playing with a kitten every one wins(kitten/player/those watching),this shit keeps up we will have some sort of political violence that will make what has happened so far look tame and will rival all the insanity/bombings in the early 70’s in this country(we are not there yet and would rather avoid).
The insanity from the 60s and 70s never ended.
http://libertyandjusticeunited.org/AdditionalDocuments/EverythingSecretReport-FBI-Part-1.pdf
http://libertyandjusticeunited.org/AdditionalDocuments/EverythingSecretReport-FBI-Part-2.pdf
Funny how the kitten/cat & laser pointer analogy shows up – you’d think the geniuses in the Dem party would have a clue by now. …unless they think they’re too smart to be outmaneuvered like that 🙂
Note to the Democrats; Please don’t stop.
No worries,am sure the enemies of the POTUS will by next week have a new “charge”after yet another witch hunt!
Every shithead MSM loon is acting as if the transcript proves nothing but guilt. The latest excuse to avoid reality? That it isn’t an audio recording. WTF do they think a transcription is? It is a written record like what a court reporter does on a “transcription device.” In addition, it is not one written record, it is FIVE transcriptions recorded in real time by people transcribing what is being said in both languages spoken by Trump and the Ukrainian President. One is good enough for a court but five isn’t enough for shithead Progs. I imagine were it a recording they would have an issue with that too. Probably that there would be no video for them to study expressions and body language. If they got that they would complain the angle wasn’t sufficient for such purposes.
WARNING: Their resort to violence will soon be the only option left if they believe they are going to get thumped next November. They see taking over the Republic to “save it” as the only excuse which could possibly fly rather than face the voters next November. Madam Speaker (with her new makeover and loose dentures) has begun quoting Franklin and other Founding Fathers who only a week ago were still just worthless racist, sexist, xenophobic dead white guys. They have no integrity and ZERO shame.
HR….
“Every shithead MSM loon is acting as if the transcript proves nothing but guilt. The latest excuse to avoid reality?”
Consider for a moment that 5 conglomerates own virtually ALL of the MSM, and perhaps it’s not an excuse……..but rather part of ‘the plan’
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <——== The Plan
side note; the special ones have 5 to transcribe their communications while the serfs simply have ALL their coms and contacts recorded and stored out in the desert vault of the NSA
“These people are stupid”
Q
Please add “fucking” to the charge of stupid.
Sad thing is, half the voters are stupider.
You stole that from Carlin
Now, did he really steal it from Carlin if it is just a plain fact? After all, the median IQ is the median and by definition, half are above and half below.
Did Carlin not claim a comedic fact as his own? Is that right?
Do you want to know a secret? Observational humor is NOT copyrightable. If it could happen to anyone, it could be observed by anyone. Just because someone “observed” it on camera first doesn’t mean NO ONE ELSE can observe it.
I used to get told I was clever all the time. So, I read a lot a books and learned how to repeat things people thought were clever. I knew good and well I was just very good at acting like I was clever. My husband asked me to help him with the wiring in the barn. After about ten minutes, he said, “You were faking the whole “expert radar technician” stuff the whole time, weren’t you?”
I told him I most absolutely was NOT faking it, but when they outbriefed me and told me to forget all the classified stuff, I did a complete data dump.
Seriously… why remember all those frequencies? It ain’t like I can build a receiver here.
I do not know anyone who is active in the deployed community any longer, though I could probably make a connection. I can’t believe there were not eyes in the sky to have seen a lot more than people talk about. If there were NOT eyes in the sky, then why were four E-3s sold to and modified recently. Why did my husband and other Boeing instructors get paid wads of money to train their crews?
What exactly are in all those big concrete bunkers I saw on my bus ride from Bahrain to Riyadh that last trip into Saudi? Are those OURS?
But don’t tell…. they’ll banish us, you know.
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
James Joyce? Or Solomon? Or Samuel? (Now there’s a kid with a horror story about being given up and abandoned. Or did I miss the point of Sammie’s story too, Pangloss?)
Solomon and you know it. I am not doing a train of thought here. And Samuel was not abandoned, his mom still saw him often and provided his clothes. She wanted a baby and dedicated him to the lord. Today, babies are unwanted, that is sad. You take a look at Richard Pryor and Charles Manson and you wonder if the moms know something.
How about this one instead EC?
“…Half the world is slowly going crazy. The other half is doing it faster…” — Morey Amsterdam (1908 – 1996) – American Television Actor and Comedian
So, now we gotta pay Morey Amsterdam’s estate to say anything about the world going crazy? Like we gotta get permission to say “I Have a Dream” from the MLK estate? I suppose Larry the Cable Guy will need a dime for every time I say Get ‘Er Done!
Jeesh, these actors and funny guys are really getting full of theirselfs, ain’t they?
I didn’t mean to say that you need to attribute everything, au contraire, I said there is nothing new under the sun. It’s not my fault Arti choked that quote.
I always attribute the source of a quote when it is known. That was a line that Morey Amsterdam used often in his routines.
Don’t go getting your knickers in a knot about it. If you think that you need to send his estate some payment for it have at it.
Sheeeesh…
What Old Pangloss said (not me) is – it’s not plagiarism if you tweak it and make it urine.
Come on we want a show, no we want an experience to remember, no we want and demand nothing short of a SPECTACLE.
I don’t remember Bush 1, but I do know that D’s have threatened to impeach every other R president in my lifetime. I am bored with the impeachment threat, they need to poo or get off the pot. Same with every R being a racist. It just shows shallow thinking that the D’s have to go back to the same well again and again (and again…)
I’m not a fan of D’s or R’s but this is nothing but an embarrassment, as is the rest of our government processes.
Trump investigated himself and found nothing illegal.
Still sipping the Kool Aid I see. ^
Dead right on that one.
The B team seals even clap for fish.
even though latinos are natural conservatives,they just never seem to come around to voting conservative–
I’ve got 2 points for you:
a. Latinos are those island people from Cuba, Puerto Rico and such. Hispanics are us people from the mainland, the southwest and south of the border. (Broadly speaking, Hispanics are people that originate from countries that were once part of the Spanish empire, from Cuba to Guam.)
b. Despite the Latino/Hispanic designation, we are not a monolithic group anymore than white people are.
c. Conservative depends on what the definition of is is. I had read that a conservative wants to keep the system as is, a liberal is one who wants to change the system.
d. So-called ‘conservative’ Hispanics want in on the action, work and make money. Another portion of Hispanics might want a change in the system so they can get freebies.
e. Political parties pander to both types in order to get votes and gain power.
It’s all so simple, Tampa, sorry I had to mansplain it to you.
As for voting Democrat – Hispanics are known to be conservative in the old sense of the term, they dislike change. The Democrat Party was good enough for JFK, it’s good enough for Hispanics. LBJ was chagrined to find JFK’s portrait hung on the wall of Hispanic households.
When beer cans went to integrated tabs, they had to keep sending cans with pull tabs to El Paso because the old farts there refused to give up the pull tab. Chico’s Tacos still sells to this day, red hot dogs because, conservative.
I get it.
***Alas: HERE IS THE REST of the STORY….
DEMOCRATS WROTE TO THE Ukrainian Government, in May 2018 urging it to continue investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign.” — collusion later found not to exist. It got almost no attention, but in May [2018], CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe. In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake. Describing themselves as “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,” the Democratic senators declared, “We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,” before demanding Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.”
I am very interested in seeing that or those letters you are referring to!!!
Link or source?
MG..
It’s easily found at this point in time:
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<<———== see this ? It's all about the benjamins
I noticed some interesting language in the 'transcipt' above. Language that I believe was purposefully used to advance the duality of reason, much like Trump's immediate post election rhetoric about the Clinton's being "good people" and how we 'truly owe her a debt of gratitude for her years of service'…
Very much like Uncola has cited in numerous articles……
Am at a disadvantage regarding search capability for a bit longer…
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf
Need that Gif of Foghorn Leghorn(Trump) spanking that old mut(Pelosi Galore, thanks Boatman) in her own house.
Wouldn’t you think by now that Nancy’s house would full of the homeless? She always said we should help the less fortunate. Or, did that mean us and not her?
Me on the left, nkit with head in the doghouse!
?
Anybody recall that Epstein feller and all the political connections he had. Plus all the little girls. We seem to have forgot so we can impeach a president who seems to have done nothing.
We need this drama. The global banking system is approaching paradox. It is of high importance that the muppets do not catch on. Epstein is safely tucked away, Assange is in the supermax, no one suspects a thing.
I have suspicions about what or who comes next.
—
The little girls were for Trump and crew, not for Epstein.
Epstein is another homo-jew operative who played his role.
He will reappear alive and well overseas in a few years.
22- A more likely prediction has never been made. Like a dog returns to his vomit…….
Firstly the transcript is available & readable so nobody can complain. The whistleblower is a fake because it’s hearsay & furthermore it’s obviously not true according to the written words & the 2 live press conferences I saw on TV with the New President of Ukraine who was the person who had the phone conversation with President Trump. Democrats have absolutely no reason to Impeach this duly elected President. They have tried everything to get rid of Donald J Trump including corruption, coup attempts & worse. I will never again vote for any Democrat for any reason because they have proven themselves to be totally EVIL leaders determined to destroy America.
I like you. You don’t mince words and waste thoughta.
You like voters?
They’re the scourge of this fine Republic.
Too shallow.
It’s actually a double fake with Pelosi doing what she is doing to help Trump.
You failed political intrigue 101, didn’t you?
Maybe it’s time for the dimms to check with Stormy to see if she is available for another run at it.
“Democrats have absolutely no reason to Impeach this duly elected President.”
That got me to thinking… “duly elected”. Might this simply be reinforcement therapy for the masses? Reinforce the illusion that we are in control of who gets “selected”… or not?
If only The Man From Queens would continue to be so transparent as to release the official records concerning:
– Assassination of JFK.
– UFOs/ contact with Aliens (from outer space – not the ones who pick lettuce) information.
– Operation Highjump and information concerning NeuSchwabenland.
– Full disclosure of causes and responsibility for catatrophic attacks on 11 Sept 2001.
THEN shit would get real interesting in a hurry; otherwise this impeachment frenzy is a fucking sock puppet show.
The only thing that got assassinated in Dealey Plaza was common sense.
Kennedy had plenty of reasons to fake his death, as did his bothers.
—
You mean you didn’t read the Warren Report?
Arti- Have you read TWR? I’ve read a great deal of it and it is a waste of time. Truly….
Pequiste:
“….would continue to be so transparent…”
Your comment strikes at the heart of the matter ! I would change the ‘continue to be’ to “have been”.
If only The Man From Queens WOULD HAVE BEEN so transparent as to release the official records concerning:
Instead, Emperor Trump immediately ‘praised’ Clinton………then he declared the stock market boom was the result of his great leadership vs. the campaigning truth of the market being a ‘bubble’…….
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——–== The E.F. (TM) are still running the show, they just put on a new sock puppet.
Proverbs 6:16-19 King James Version (KJV)
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
God’s Judgement is upon this Country, do not expect things to get better, prepare your children.
I believe you’re right, Ginger.
I have no children, and my dad’s surname ends with me, so there’s that. Biggest problem for me is, I see about 400 of those little critters everyday at the school just across the road. I find myself wondering how long before I see the burkas and the Tranny Team for Library time, ya know?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-==
I just hobbled down to a church yesterday so I could eyeball to eyeball address the pastor and one of his head elders (who sits on the city board). I made it clear to them that I will submit to the masonic theocracy's laws as they are now, but will submit no more to any additional restrictions/laws
That preacher is probly wonderin who the hell was that?……..hahaha
catastrophic
The Disturbing Reason Why the Dems Really Want to Impeach Trump
Uncola…
There’s not much that gets past you. With that in mind, I would point you upthread to Pequiste’s comment….
It goes back to the substance of what you have ‘archived’ for posterity….real, or reality TV?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-==
Allowing for the fact that my views have been predetermined, I read the transcript yesterday and the 'language' contained within, screamed out to me………did you pick up anything from it ?
American politics is 100% deception….
"Time is the fire by which we burn"
If only the Emperor had more time, like maybe four more years ……
TBPers are professional nitpickers. The old boy from Arkansas (Sensetti) said TBPers would discuss the discharge from your mom’s coochie like it was a matter of national security.
Damn, Doug. That’s a really great article you linked. With only 4 upvotes here, more people would do well to tap into that one.
I thought it was a gold mine analysis. Thx!
On the road unable to elevate this to post. Great article I would love to expound upon to include references to Aldous Huxley.
I think the two stories merge, Tadpole. 1984’s Brave New World Anthem.
Maybe more than two.
Serious…hope the article posts.