Not only is it not a real transcript (it’s a memo), but it’s worse than I thought. I can’t believe the White House actually released this… I can only imagine what was actually said on that phone call. We need to see what’s in the whistleblower complaint.
Fat donald: "Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General… There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son…
whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great… if
so you have no problem with trump asking a foriegn government to investigae his political rival and to work with the attorney general to do so…
"There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, what 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,”
The best case scenario for the White House was basically a call summary in which Trump is clearly shown to be doing exactly what he was accused of. If this is considered “good” for him, imagine how bad the whistle blower complaint is that includes other evidence.
By the account of the White House itself, Donald solicited a foreign government for help against a political rival. “I’m asking you for a favor.” And then he asked that foreign government to make contact with his personal lawyer who is known to be looking for political dirt on opponents.
If this is fake news it came directly from Donald’s administration.
Where in that transcript (or memo) did Trump ever even hint there was a connection between finding something on Biden(s) and our assistance?
You don’t have to like what he talked about, but nothing impeachable there.
A sitting president used his position to ask a foreign party to look into a political rival. A rival he specified by name. He used his position in hopes of furthering his personal political career.
This “transcript” is all that is needed for impeachment.