RE: Conversely, envision that the President asks for help investigating some US corruption involving Ukraine. He attaches all sorts of conditionality, and whatever sort of arm-twisting he has at his disposal but the President’s motive was a reflection of his belief that US laws were broken in a fraudulent effort to reverse the 2016 election.
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Let me copy and paste the so-called offending statement made by Trump in his call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky... here it is:
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.”
NOTICE the phrase Trump used after he asked for a favor -— “our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
How can one conclude that his motive was to gain a PERSONAL advantage over his opponent when he was talking about the Independent Council’s Russia Investigation ( i.e., our country has been through a lot )?
It is clear that Trump wants to get to the bottom of the source of this deceitful hoax of an investigation.
So, to say that his motive was for Ukraine to help him in his re-election bid CANNOT BE CONCLUDED from the transcript.
The one word I highlighted is all anyone needs to read. It’s noteworthy that he didn’t say “ME” here.
also crowdstrike had to do with the DNC server not Joe Bidens server. Biden isn’t even mentioned. How can an argument even be made that Trump was going after Biden.