BWD06 said:
RGLAG85 said:
MetoliusAg said:
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So the military aid was withheld or not as part of a quid pro quo?
If Bribery is an impeachable offense, so is Attempted Bribery.
Who tried to bribe who? And even if there was a quid pro quo, wasn't, that's not a crime. Aid has been withheld before and aid had been given before in return for something in return. And it will be in the future. That's responsible governing. According to the transcript, the favor was looking into the dnc server and Russian collusion. Biden and his son were not discussed until much later in the conversation.
This is just not true. Re read the transcript and define "much later". The President mentions all the support the US gives and that is it not reciprocal. Zelensky speaks. The President asks for a favor and mentioned the server. Zelensky speaks. The President mentions investigating corruption and the Bidens.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
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.
(Favor asked no mention of aid being withheld or quid pro quo) would like you to find out what happened with
this whole siuation with Ukraine, they s_ay Crowdstrike ... I guess
you have one of your weal thy people... The server, they say
Ukraine has.it There- are a lot. of things that went on, the
:whole situation .. I think you 1 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 t get to the
bottom of it. As you sa yestrday, that whole nonsetise ended
with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Muele_r, 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.
(End of favor. Still no quid pro quo)(l!l-,'HP) 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 ooperation 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 wtll work hard on making sure that our two
nations are getting clciser. I would also like and hope to see
him having your trust and y9ur .confidence and _ have persona1
relationswith you so we cn cooperate even ore so. I
wili.
personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr.
Giuliani just.recently and we are hoping very much that Mr.
G1uliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and. we will meet once
he coes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again_that
you _have nobody but friends around-us. I w.ill make sure -that-I
surrond 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 strategicartnrship. I also plan to surround
myself with great people and in addition to
that investigation, (Singular)I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the
investigations.
(Zelenskyy mentions other investigations)will be done_openly and candidly .. That I can
assure you ..
(:9/MF The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor
who was verygood and he was shut down and that's really unfair.
_A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your
ery good prosecutor down and you had some ery bad people
involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the_
mayor bf New York Ci:ty, a great mayor, and I would like him to
call you. I will ask him to call yoti 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 $tates, the woman., was bad
news nd th people she was dealing with in .the Ukraine .were bad
news so I jtist wan to_let you know that The oter thing,
There's a lot 6f. talk about Biden's son,.
(First mention of Biden and its referring to his son)that Biden
(now Joe. Still no quid pro quo)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.
(S;'ti!F) President Zelenskyy: I wanted to tell you about the
prosecutor First df 11 I understand arid I'm kn6wledgeable
.abotit the situation. Sine we hae on the abolute majority in
our Parliament; the next prosecutor .general will be 100%_ my
person, my c'andidate, who will be approved, by the parliament and
will start. a_s a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look.
into the situation, specifically to the company that you
-mentioned in :this issue. The issue of the investigation of the
case is ctually the issui of aking sure to resoe the honesty
so we will take care of.that and wi11wo:tk on the investigation
of the case. On top of that, I would kindly ask you if you have
any additional information that you can provide to s, it would_
be very helpful for the investigation to make su.re that we
administer justice i':r1 our country with regc:ird: to the Ambassador
to the United States from Ukraine as far as I recall her name
was Ivanovicli. It was great that you were the first one. who told
me that she was a bad ambassador because I agreewith you 100%.
Her attitude to.wards me was far from the best as she admired the
previous President and she was on his side. She would not accept
e as a new President well enough.
. . . .
(3/MF) The President: Well,
she' s going tO go through some
things. I will. have Mr. Giuliani.give you a call and I _ am. also
going to have.Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the
bottom of it. I'm sure you will figure it ot. I heard the
prosecutor was treated very badly and he was a very far
prosecuto_r so good luck with everything. Your. economy is going-
to get better and bett.er I pre.diet. You have a lot of a,ssets.
It's a great country. I have many Ukrainian friends, their
incredible people.
A lot of discussion there between the crowd strike, dnc server (the favor) and Biden. Zelenskyy brings up the other investigations, not Trump. And anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see there's no spoken connection between the favor and the mention of Biden. And there's never a mention of aid being withheld on condition.