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President's phone call transcript

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Complains about supposed conspiracy theories - quotes Judicial Watch..

This is why I make no attempt to even justify my position. I just post what I know and move on. There is no convincing certain people so there is no reason to even try.

This is all part of the investigation the 'date setters' stated never even begun. And what we are witnessing is pushback against Trump for looking into illicit actions.
 
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I don't know why you continue to throw self-indulgent pity parties

I'm on the winning side of this. There is no self pity.

All he's asking you to do is look at the transcript that the White House themselves released, and look at it objectively.

No, Im being asked to accept a position I know to be incorrect because an individual has an opinion, and some emotions. I am supposed to accept that opinion and only that opinion.

Meanwhile, no creedence at all is given as to why this all is even going down in the first place. Anything from my side of the argument is viewed as a conspiracy theory, and yet here we are.
 
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This is why I make no attempt to even justify my position. I just post what I know and move on. There is no convincing certain people so there is no reason to even try.

This is all part of the investigation the 'date setters' stated never even begun. And what we are witnessing is pushback against Trump for looking into illicit actions.

Well you say that, but frankly you’ve been a bit disappointing the last few days. Usually you are pretty open to having actual discussions about events, but now we have something with actual public evidence to discuss, instead you keep posting stuff which is basically just ‘blah, blah, blah, Dems lying again’. There’s some posters here who we expect that from, but not usually you.

We have a memo released from the White House itself showing an edited version of the President talking to a foreign leader and asking him to investigate one of his political rivals. What do you actually think about that?
 
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Relevance? This thread is about Donald attempting to trade weapons to a foreign government in exchange for them investigating one of his political rivals. Regardless of how guilty Biden might or might not be that does nothing to change what Donald did.
 
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This is all part of the investigation the 'date setters' stated never even begun. And what we are witnessing is pushback against Trump for looking into illicit actions.
Perhaps we are continuing to look at the WAY ... he does what he does.

P.S. They aren't ILLICIT actions ... unless there is a FACTUAL explanation of HOW they are illicit.

Just a point of reference to you ... the Republicans have been spinning story after story of unfounded allegations against their political foes for the last 25 years, at least. Please wake up ... and smell the coffee ...
 
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Well you say that, but frankly you’ve been a bit disappointing the last few days. Usually you are pretty open to having actual discussions about events, but now we have something with actual public evidence to discuss, instead you keep posting stuff which is basically just ‘blah, blah, blah, Dems lying again’. There’s some posters here who we expect that from, but not usually you.

To be honest, Im human, and I'm ticked off. I do apologize for my attitude. To be honest, it never seems like we are having a conversation. It normally feels like a dog pile of accusations, rhetoric, and smears when ever I present something.

My other issue is personal. I have a member of my family that is a security administrator GS-15 DOS that might be implicated having work directly with HRC. I have seen that individuals named mentioned. Regardless of how I feel about issues they are still a member of my family. It is taxing. In many ways I am angry. Scared, confused, and even feel betrayed. My entire family is in one form of another government, military, or police. Lots of tension right now. Including a brand new son in law that might be getting deployed while I'm expecting my first grandchild, and my daughter is on a military base a thousand miles away.

So there is the truth of it. Im human. And I am sorry for causing any issues.

We have a memo released from the White House itself showing an edited version of the President talking to a foreign leader and asking him to investigate one of his political rivals. What do you actually think about that?

People keep say 'political rival' like this wasnt why Trump was even voted into office in the first place. So basically you just run against Trump, and you can no longer be investigated?
 
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People keep say 'political rival' like this wasnt why Trump was even voted into office in the first place. So basically you just run against Trump, and you can no longer be investigated?

Pardon me, and forgive me if I’m wrong, but these accusations on Biden, whether they’re true or not - they’re nothing new, right? Why is Trump looking into these things now? And why ask a foreign government to do it?
 
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Pardon me, and forgive me if I’m wrong, but these accusations on Biden, whether they’re true or not - they’re nothing new, right? Why is Trump looking into these things now? And why ask a foreign government to do it?

I'm trying to figure out a way of explaining this that is comprehensive, and concise. But there is sooo much to this. I have touched on this before and you can search my posts, no this is not new.

Why is Trump looking into these things now?

I think that is more of a deflection than a reality. It was brought to light in order to showcase Trump as acting against a political rival. It was already happening, it is just now framed in a certain light and bringing it into the forefront. Normally, if someone brings up investigations into the DNC, FISA, Steele dossier, Clinton foundation, so on, they are immediately meet with accusations and reasonings as to why their claim is false. This is more of the same. Instead of it being a part of an ongoing investigation it is viewed as an attack on a political rival.

And why ask a foreign government to do it?

He is not asking a foreign country to 'do it'. He is asking them to investigate what involvement they had.

This is getting into 5 eyes, and programs like it. International data collection and surveillance between governments.
 
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Relevance? This thread is about Donald attempting to trade weapons to a foreign government in exchange for them investigating one of his political rivals.

I do not get how you come to that point of veiw. Trump has been arming the Ukraine for quite some time. He has also spoken against Germany for giving Russia billions concerning a pipeline for fuel, stating it was foolish to give your enemy money and be dependant on their fuel if you go to war. Has gotten NATO to pay billions more to arm against Russian invasion in the area. Trump put sanctions on Russia concerning the Ukraine.

They already have American weaponry. I mean 2016- 2017

 
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He is not asking a foreign country to 'do it'. He is asking them to investigate what involvement they had.

If an American citizen is suspected to be involved in crimes abroad, there are proper channels for handing the investigation.

It is not the role of the President to investigate.


Question: Have you read the entire summarized 'transcript' that the White House made available earlier this week?
 
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If an American citizen is suspected to be involved in crimes abroad, there are proper channels for handing investigation.

It is not the role of the President to investigate.

Why not? What legislation forbids it?


Question: Have you read the entire summarized 'transcript' that the White House made available earlier this week?

No. Not at all. Maybe I can get spoon fed for once? What are you referring to?

I haven't even wanted to look into it until now. I'm going to give it an honest look at.
 
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ust a point of reference to you ... the Republicans have been spinning story after story of unfounded allegations against their political foes for the last 25 years, at least. Please wake up ... and smell the coffee ...

I do believe there is a very real reason for that, and is a large part for why Trump was voted into office. For some 25 years now both parties have been getting away with murder.
 
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Pardon me, and forgive me if I’m wrong, but these accusations on Biden, whether they’re true or not - they’re nothing new, right? Why is Trump looking into these things now? And why ask a foreign government to do it?
Because he wants to raise suspicions about his opposition and plant an insinuation in the minds of all who are vulnerable, just like when Obama wasn't born in America and was a secret Muslim.
 
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.....We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.

The President: 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 it3. 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.

President Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that. purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have, friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.

(S/NF) The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great.4 The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. 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.[/QUOTE]
 
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To be honest, Im human, and I'm ticked off. I do apologize for my attitude. To be honest, it never seems like we are having a conversation. It normally feels like a dog pile of accusations, rhetoric, and smears when ever I present something.

My other issue is personal. I have a member of my family that is a security administrator GS-15 DOS that might be implicated having work directly with HRC. I have seen that individuals named mentioned. Regardless of how I feel about issues they are still a member of my family. It is taxing. In many ways I am angry. Scared, confused, and even feel betrayed. My entire family is in one form of another government, military, or police. Lots of tension right now. Including a brand new son in law that might be getting deployed while I'm expecting my first grandchild, and my daughter is on a military base a thousand miles away.

So there is the truth of it. Im human. And I am sorry for causing any issues.

Sorry you’re going through a lot man, I can relate at the moment. Hope things pick up soon.
 
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Sorry you’re going through a lot man, I can relate at the moment. Hope things pick up soon.

On the contrary, thank you for confronting me in the manner that you did. Sometimes you don't know what you are saying actually gets heard at all. To hear you tell me to get it together because you find it disappointing the way I was ranting means something to me. So thanks. Maybe I'm not just talking to myself. I honestly appreciate that even if we do not agree on everything.
 
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