Sunday, September 29, 2019

Trump the Thin Skinned

The Hill: Trump demands to meet whistleblower, warns of 'big consequences'

Now let's see, Trump the guy who name calls everyone he dislikes and retaliates against everybody who he perceives has wronged him is mad at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and wants to meet the whistle blower...

Either he is as petty, impulsive and foolish as he often seems, or he is trying to manipulate his "True Believers".  Because Schiff has Freedom of Speech on his side and no Trump does not have the right to know who exposed his stupid conversation.  And please remember that these are just White House notes...  Not an actual transcript...  We have not seen this yet because Trump and Crew buried it in a top secret server that is usually used for top secret communications.

President Zelenskyy: Yes you are absolutely right. Not only 100%, but actually 1000% and I can tell you the following; I did talk to Angela Merkel and I did meet with her I also met and talked with Macron and I told them that they are not doing quite as much as they need to be doing on the issues with the sanctions. They are not enforcing the sanctions. They are not working as much as they should work for Ukraine. It turns out that even though logically, the European Union should be our biggest partner but technically the United States is a much bigger partner than the European Union and I'm very grateful to you for that because the United States is doing quite a lot for Ukraine. Much more than the European Union especially when we are talking about sanctions against the Russian Federation. I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. 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 it. 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.
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. 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.
And as for that good prosecutor and Biden's "bragging...

So as is usual...  Trump did something really stupid and self centered and he wants to blame everyone else.  Now the question is will the True Believers start researching and thinking for themselves...  Or will they swallow whatever Trump chooses to feed them?  Thoughts?

13 comments:

  1. Here are some interesting then / now comments regarding impeachment

    It certainly proves that politician are gifted at talking out of both sides of their mouth.

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  2. Attempts to muddy the waters

    I saw the Chris Wallace interview, I love watching him demand real answers.

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  3. It is amazing how hard Trump and Crew are trying to distract his followers from Trump's Actions and Words...

    First it was a partisan whistle blower...
    Then it was treasonous spies should be shot...
    Then it was Adam Schiff making light of Trump's words...
    And now it is... Someone changed the form...

    Does he think everyone is stupid?

    Remember the words...

    Ukraine President: "I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. 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."

    President Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though

    "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.


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  4. A VOX Update

    A FOX Update

    "There are questions, though, over whether the prior form may have been flawed.

    Julian Sanchez, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, noted that the relevant statute and other underlying directives do not require such whistleblower disclosures to have “firsthand” information. He called the new form “consistent with the law.”

    “If anything’s sketchy here, honestly, it’s not the current form, but the old one: Precisely because it could easily be misread as implying you aren’t entitled to protection if you disclose abuses learned about indirectly. Which would be a serious misrepresentation of the law,” he tweeted."

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  5. NYT is now reporting a questionable call to Australia.

    We'll see how that plays out.

    Moose

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  6. Well Trump seems to see "Our Government and All It's Employees" as "His Government and Employees".

    I mean he had ~70 years of being a BOSS in a privately held family corporation.

    I am sure it is hard for him to acknowledge that these are not "HIS Employees" who are there to serve "HIS Wishes"...

    I don't think he ever quite understood that being President is to Serve the country...

    Trump pushes Australia for Info

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