Oh....that's FANTASTIC.
Let me summarize:
Part 1:
Lots of people were alarmed by Trump's possible election and then election.
[Well, no shit. That's how sane people react when the see the seat of power of the most powerful nation on earth, and our home country, about to be given to a deranged narcissist. Anyone worth a shit thought he was a deranged narcissist LONG before he announced a presidential run.]
Part 2:
Oh, let's break this one down:
False. No transcript has been released. 1) It says right on the document that it's not a verbatim transcript. 2) Testimony of witnesses with knowledge of the call says that significant portions of the conversation were omitted.
First problem: straw man. While the issue of the quid pro quo creates an ADDITIONAL crime, the initial crime is the mere solicitation of foreign assistance with a campaign issue. So, she's over there attacking one issue (poorly -- we'll get to that) in order to distract from another.
Second problem: if the standard for convicting someone for bribery is "he has to say 'I hereby want to BRIBE you by offering you THIS MONEY RIGHT HERE in exchange for FAVOR X," then there would be zero bribery convictions in US history. Instead, there are many such convictions. And they are based on conduct EXACTLY like what we see reflected in the document discussing the call.
Zelensky's part:
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.
Trump's response:
I would like you to do us a favor though [I'm pausing here, because note the word "though" -- that is a conditional word. It has meaning. It connects this part of the exchange with what Zelensky said immediately before.] [skipping over the first part, where he discusses the Crowdstrike nonsense]
The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden 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.
So, the sequence here -- and remember, this is language team Trump FAVORABLY selected -- is 1) Zelensky says we want to buy weapons, 2) Trump says I want you to do me a favor, THOUGH, and 3) a portion of that favor is to investigate Biden, his primary political rival in the upcoming election.
But it's okay, here analysis gets even dumber.
The solicitation is the crime. Her argument is the absolutely ludicrous position that soliciting a bribe isn't a crime if the other party doesn't actually end up paying. This is how these simpletons think, folks.
Oh, and nevermind that the testimony since -- which she ignores, as the entire Trump defense strategy requires -- indicates that Trump wasn't even asking for an actual investigation of Biden. He just wanted a public ANNOUNCEMENT of such investigation. Which of course has zero anti-corruption value, but complete political campaign value.
Wait, maybe she wants to pivot later to an argument that "well, anything Rudy was doing was on his own, the president didn't know." I hope she does.
She's a twit doing nothing more than continued deflection, zero discussion of actual facts, and pathetic misstatements of law and logic that simply expose her as a drooling simpleton. So, in that respect, I can see why the Trumpkins adore her as one of their own.
"She talks like us!"