Shortly after House Democrats launched an unofficial official impeachment inquiry for the now-laughable “whistleblower” scandal, President Donald Trump released the transcript of the conversation at the heart of the non-scandal showing there was no talk of freezing Ukraine aid or of any “quid pro quo.”
You can read the transcript itself to see what a nothingburger it is.
2)As to call transcript itself: Trump’s actual “favor” is that Ukraine look backward, to what happened in the 2016 election. This is a legitimate ask, since election meddling looks to have come from both Russia and Ukraine.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
4)It is actually Zelensky who brings up Rudy Giuliani—saying they can’t wait to “meet him.” And it is Zelensky who references “that investigation,” as he goes on to promise that “all investigations will be done openly and candidly.”
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
6)Trump's several references to Giuliani are mostly to say what a great guy he is. He says he will have Giuliani and AG Barr call. He asks Zelensky to speak/work with both.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
8)Meanwhile, the IG back in August referred this to DOJ as potential violation of campaign finance law, based on whistleblower complaint. Criminal Division evaluated and determined no violation: “All relevant components of the Department agreed with this legal conclusion.”
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
10)Media got all this so wrong. And Democrats look all the more partisan and radical to have moved toward impeachment.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
But partisan and radical is their business model! (Well, that and all the graft.)
From the transcript:
"Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me"
This is it—this was the ask.
No withholding of aid, no quid pro quo
This is what Democrats want to impeach the president over
Unbelievable
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 25, 2019
This didn’t keep some of the media’s worst outlets from continuing to hype the non-story:
Wait what?! You guys just skipped over the paragraphs making clear the "favor" he's asking for was about 2016 election interference.
This is ACTUAL misinformation, you guys. https://t.co/DdpGRKG0cC
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 25, 2019
The irony is that Democrats actually did what they laughable accused President Trump of doing:
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy gave a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, earlier this month: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats' support for future U.S. aid to Kievhttps://t.co/IqUo6ZruZN
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 25, 2019
WIll this cause Democrats to close their impeachment proceedings and apologize? Of course not. They’ll keep it humming along until their extensions in the media can gin up another fake scandal for them to hype until that nothingburger explodes in their face as well. Repeat until November 2020.
It’s nothingburgers all the way down, forever and ever amen.
Tags: Chris Murphy, CNN, Crowdstrike, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Hunter Biden, impeachment, Joe Biden, Media Watch, Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky