Are we reading different things? Nothing in this report even sounds unusual to me beyond the fact that they stored this thing on a separate server which, holy shit who cares.
Give me like the 2-3 sentence summary of this that is going to sound bad to your average American?
MOTHERFUCKING CAPS LOCK
Its a little disappointing that thereâs not something else other than the Ukraine issue included in the report. I thought there was going to be something even more âtroublingâ.
Itâs very odd seeing so many people act like republicans are going to do the right thing all of a sudden. They arenât. Ever.
We donât have the word for word transcript of the call, right? Itâs gotta be 10 times worse, right?
Nothing new. Rudy legit deserves a life sentence. Shout out Rick Perry!
The NY Times gets straight to it. And itâs not good.
There is no other transcript of the call. It was transcribed in real time by like 3 people who then combined their notes. The call was not recorded so a verbatim transcript was not and cannot be made.
Right so we spent 3 years joking about how putting non-classified materials on outside servers was completely normal and itâs stupid to make a big deal about itâŚ
WAIT TRUMP PUT THIS ON A DIFFERENT SERVER TO AVOID FOIA? BURN HIM
Yeah I mean itâs not like the things being stored on a separate server were EMAILS.
The relevant part is the first sentence:
The moving stuff around is just hypocrisy for the funs
And then released the transcript anyway.
Heâs definitely fucked bc of the cover-up. He would have been able to get past all the rest, but the cover-up shit should be game over. Weâll see I guess. Iâm sure the Senate wonât convict but this is Nixon levels of bad.
The President of the United states abused the power of his office to pressure the President of Ukraine into investigating his political opponents, and in so doing he subverted US foreign policy and jeopardized national security. He directly attempted to initiate collusion with a foreign country into United States elections, and we have a transcript to prove it. Upon doing so, the White House immediately engaged in a cover up that demonstrates that the president immediately knew he had done something wrong and tried to keep it from ever coming to light.
Plus, likely quid pro quo - there will be hearings to attempt to prove that, and if they prove it, I really think heâs going down. As it currently stands I am 100% sure heâs getting impeached and I think he gets votes to convict from multiple Republican senators.
The problem with Russia wasnât that it wasnât bad enough, itâs that it was so complex it was hard to explain to average voters. This is simple. Itâs not as bad as Russia on its face, although one could argue that because heâs doing it as a president and not as a candidate, that makes it worse. But regardless, itâs bad enough and itâs simple and itâs already proven.
The Democrats just woke up to impeachment on a silver platter, and itâs so simple itâs going to be hard to mess it up.
No one ever honestly gave two fucks about e-mails. Itâs not like the GOP who were laughably frothing at the mouth over Hillary are suddenly going to care about proper storage of electronic documents to preserve their illusion of intellectually honesty. The have certainly been getting more blatant in their dishonesty and spin, and why wouldnât they? It keeps working. The Fox viewing public just keeps injecting it straight into their veins.
Page 3 of the report, first paragraph of section II, says that there is an official word-for-word transcript of the call. Was that what was released yesterday?
Did you guys read the report? (Sorry I donât mean to sound like Nun)
Like 80% of it is quoting shit that was published already in the news, or quoting interviews trump and Rudy gave. Itâs hard to argue âthis was a coverup, as evidenced by this interview that aired on CNN in June where Rudy admitted to doing itâ.
Like. The most damning fact in this whole thing, by far, is that they tried to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress.
I read it, and I think it was already bad yesterday and it got worse. I think the complaint gives the Dems a roadmap for their impeachment hearings.
Nunes going hard in the paint as usual. Trashing the Dems, the whole process, etc. Not surprising given who itâs coming from.