The problem for Trump is the transcript he released backs up what the whistleblower was saying. It's not okay for any President to ask another country to try to dig up dirt on a political rival. There isn't a question that Trump misused his office in that way. His corruption was on full display. And with the two Rudy/Trump thugs illegally running around funneling money into GOP campaigns and also connected to the Ukrain scandal I don't think the GOP can just blindly and obediently follow and protect him without paying a price at election time.
No, it
doesn't support what the "whistleblower"/CIA-leaker-rat was alleging.
The transcript shows there was no intimidation, no coercion by Trump. Zelensky in multiple on-camera interviews since has made clear it was a very friendly call, as the transcribed de-classified phone call also confirms. At no time in the call did Trump intimidate or threaten Zelenskyy.
While Trump used the term "hey, do me a favor..." (as he has used on many people in a non-threatening way, even in multiple rallies to his audience of supporters), at no time was there a threat connected. To any neutral observer, the call was very friendly. To Zelenskyy himself, it was friendly.
The one bit that Democrats cling to is that planned aid to Ukraine was held up, but was
never discussed in the call between Trump and Zelenskyy, and thus was never used as a threat. Zelenskyy has independently of that conversation said that he was completely unaware the U.S. aid to Ukraine was delayed, and only learned of it 30 days after the Trump/Zelenskyy phone call, at which point the aid had already resumed. It was witheld to be screened for potential corruption, not as a threat, completely independent of Trump and Zelenskyy's phone call.
The 'whistleblower"/CIA-leaker-rat's allegations are
highly suspect for multiple reasons:
* The leaker rules were changed by the CIA just months before his "whistleblower" report was made.
* No one in the CIA is willing to to take credit for precisely when the whistleblower report form was changed, or who authorized the change, but it had to ultimately be approved by director Gina Haspel.
* Gina Haspel is the protege of John Brennan, and Brennan is the most vocal and bitter of Trump's attackers, that he does pretty much daily as a "consultant" pundit from anti-Trump propaganda headquarters CNN.
* Several of Gina Haspel's closest assistants were assistants to John Brennan, and one of them came out of retirement to be her assistant.
* The "Russia collusion hoax" coup is believed to have originated from Brennan, and Gina Haspel is Brennan's chosen successor at the CIA.
* The CIA is where the "Russia collusion" narrative was created, and now this newest "whistleblower" coup again originates from a CIA agent, and those "additional whistleblowers" are likely other CIA co-workers. Another CIA agent interviewed calls this by the intelligence community propaganda technique term
"looping", where you don't have new information, you just allege new sources, but they are in fact part of the original whistleblower's report. A standard CIA psy-ops tactic. Which by the way, is what was done with the evidence presented for the FISA warrants submitted to FISA Court judges on Carter Page,
four times, where Christopher Steele's "Russia dossier" was presented as evidence, with two articles that allegedly backed it up, but were in fact sourced from and just repeating what was in the Russia Dossier.
* The disproven "Russia Collusion" hoax originated from the CIA/ FBI/ DNI intelligence community, and this latest "whistleblower" report originates from the same intelligence community and involves many of the same players.
You and other Democrats are so desperate to create any rationalization to impeach Trump that you are willing to believe
anything alleged about Trump, no matter how suspicious, no matter how disproven.
But regardless, it's a scam. You're just too ideologically blind to see it.
