An explicit quid pro quo? No. But conservatives argued - properly so - that when Obama mused aloud about siccing the IRS on political opponents or prejudged that Hillary had done nothing indictable, he didn't have to be 100% explicit for it to be bad. Apply the same logic here.
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Thread with another perspective. Of course, it is strange for the president to say that the AG will be in touch, and then not tell the AG to get in touchhttps://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1176865149673598979 …
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Thread. There is no way around the fact that Hunter Biden was making money - in fact, making his entire living - off his proximity to his father's political influence. And Joe Biden, in his fifth decade in DC, can't possibly have been unaware of thathttps://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1176882652613361664 …
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Yep. It's not 100% verbatim, and it's wise to read a conversation impressionistically to get how it was perceived. But as these sorts of transcripts go, it's pretty diligenthttps://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1176892328511979520 …
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You will notice - and this latest controversy is by no means the only example - the pattern: 1. "Release X! X will bring down Trump!" 2. X comes out, isn't what we were promised. 3. "We told you releasing just X was a coverup! Release Y! It's not a real investigation until..."
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For example, remember when the be-all & end-all of things was the FBI interviewing Mark Judge? And then they did, & nobody ever mentioned him again?
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Schiff sure sounds like a guy who is backing away from the original marketing of this story as a quid pro quohttps://twitter.com/DHBerman/status/1176894713909174273 …
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It's not in Biden's political interest to focus more attention on Hunter Bidenhttps://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1176895064104230914 …
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It would be useful to get someone more credible than Chris Murphy on the record saying thishttps://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1176897474017058817 …
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True, and oft-overlooked by people who are more interested in using Trump as a club against Republicanshttps://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1176900229385347072 …
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Likely true. Also likely true that virtually everyone will just chalk this up to Trump being exactly what they already assumed Trump is likehttps://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1176900396448722944 …
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As to 2020, I'm still where I've been for months now: I resent being asked to cast a ballot for a man who is manifestly unfit for the job, but I also not want to hand power to a party that will make the lives of Americans worse & do permanent damage to its vital institutions.
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Inasmuch as that means no good choices, well, there's no reason to make me want to commit any earlier than I need to. But I continue to not blame other conservatives who have cast their lot already with Trump 2020 or Never Trump 2020.
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It will not surprise me if the outcome of this whole thing is to do only modest damage to Trump, but extensive damage to Biden, who after all still has a primary fight to winhttps://twitter.com/BetSnyder/status/1176902657413439488 …
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"A confidential diplomatic communication between the president and a foreign leader," singular.https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1176906281074024450 …
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Readout of the call is somewhat ambiguous as to whether Trump actually asked Zelensky to investigate the Bidens or just cooperate with a US investigation, but it certainly appears that Zelensky interpreted it as the former, & Trump rolled with it:pic.twitter.com/3d2B9tp133
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Yeah, and this gets back to my point about reading the readout impressionistically, as it would be received in a back-and-forth conversationhttps://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1176929195093610496 …
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