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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:52 AM Oct 2019

Explicit quid pro quo will be found on full transcript of the Ukranain call! Impeachment certain!

So far all we have is a summary of the July 25th call, but the entire exists, as the whistleblower makes clear:

"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced—as is customary—by the White House Situation Room."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistle-blower-complaint.html

What the WH naively released is bad enough. Imagine what the word-for-word transcript has!

What they haven't yet released is far worse (having 6-7 more Biden mentions for example) than what they foolishly didn't realize was damning enough.

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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
3. If he does it in as inept a fashion he redirected a hurricane
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:03 AM
Oct 2019

upon discovery that will constitute another count of obstruction and tacit admission of guilt.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
2. Will they ever get a hold of it?
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:02 AM
Oct 2019

Thats the question... so far there seems to have been very little penalty for obstruction and theyve never even seen the unredacted mueller rept...

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
5. The WH already released a portion that they implicitly claimed represented the entire text.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:13 AM
Oct 2019

That claim of representation will be used in a subpoena to examine the entire.

(Esp. since Barr so profoundly misrepresented the Mueller report.)

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
6. I bet there was a recording at some point - that's since been destroyed.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:21 AM
Oct 2019

But digital things can leave fingerprints and who knows how many times the recording data was duplicated across various devices and networks.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
7. Even now, 11:30 a.m. on the WH lawn
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:32 AM
Oct 2019

he is emphasizing how perfect call it was.

Each time he says that makes the case for seeing the entire much stronger in terms of a House subpoena.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
10. If they don't but a record of them exists that would point to Nixonian levels of obstruction.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:41 AM
Oct 2019

And the record could include the memory of secretaries, stenographers, file clerks, etc.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
11. The word-for-word transcript will do him in.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 02:11 PM
Oct 2019

Like Nixon's tapes did to him.

And most of his defeners in the House and Senate will abandon him when they hear the explicit quid pro quo.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
12. Exactly!
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 02:15 PM
Oct 2019

The White House should be forced to release the full transcript.

(Interns in the office of one senator, Angus King of Maine, read the released version aloud and clocked it at roughly ten minutes.) Not to mention that the “comma-for-comma” White House readout contains ellipses — which may yet prove to be tantamount to the notorious 18-and-a-half-minute gap on an incriminating Nixon White House tape.

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