Yes, it really is. Here is the transcript again, emphasis mine:
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 Ukraine has it. There are also 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 the 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, the whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Muller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you do, it is very important you do it if that's possible.
President Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier...
I guarantee as the president President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.
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 down your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Guliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New Yor 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. The former ambassador of 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 could look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
President Zelenskyy: ...it was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous president and she as on his side. She would not accept me a new president well enough.
The President: Well, she's going to go through some things. I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. I'm sure you will figure it out. I heard the prosecutor was treated very badly and he was a very fair prosecutor so good luck with everything. Your economy is going to get better and better I predict. You have a lot of assets. It's a great country. I have many Ukrainian friends, their (sic) incredible people.
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The context was a
favor. It would have been non-problematic if it was only about Ukraine investigating Ukraine. However,
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 could look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
Then, he stated later that
he predicts their economy will get better and better
after Zelenskyy
agreed to everything Trump had asked - including doing something about finding information on his political opponent.
Sure it can, that is what he and his constituency has been doing since before the transcript. However, the transcript specifically shows
a sitting president asked a
foreign power to
do whatever he can do with the Attorney General to find out information on his political opponent.
You are free to ignore that.
That is not the reality; one argument is dogged in that the argument can legally stand, while the other argument is pointing out exactly what was transcribed from the conversation between the US president and the president of another nation.
Well it's nice you have the innocence to believe the justice system works that way, but no one is talking about removing the president. In fact, presidents can survive impeachment if that were to happen. Trump will remain in office, but it would be disingenuous to completely ignore what is going on. If Obama did half of the things Trump did, they would legalize lynching again just for him.
You are defending a demagogue that doesn't even have the
fear of the people to hide his demagoguery - that says more about
us than Trump. Politically, he is doing exactly what he should be doing. It isn't his fault we idolize global corporatism disguised as capitalism, and demagogues who promise the world and deliver dust.
