cross-posted this in another thread, but I think it belongs here:
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.
The president of the United States delivered this "transcript" to Congress. That is what is known as a quid pro quo.
We are what, 3 weeks into this impeachment inquiry and are having the first hearings? You Trumpets are funny, spinning away on your hamster wheels trying to deflect and rationalize your way out of this ridiculous mess.
I repeat my two questions, which have not been answered by a single Trump supporter:
Is it OK for the president of the United States to withhold Congressionally-appropriated military funds to the president of a foreign country in return for that country's aid in investigating his political opponent?
Why?
While you're googling, look up "Mic drop."
Like I said before:
"I expect all of these terms to be used in your trolling lexicon henceforth, as all good conservatrolls do when they learn something new. Preferably, you use it on someone who didn't introduce you to them."
You can't even get that right.