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Editor Emeritus, http://DailyWire.com , host of "The Ben Shapiro Show,” NYT bestsellers "The Right Side of History" and "How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps"

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    1. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      2/15. The interpretation will be a complete Rorschach test. If you see Trump as a calculating gangster, this reads like a veiled quid pro quo. He opens by mentioning aid, then immediately swivels to talk about Crowdstrike, Biden, and Giuliani.

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    2. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      3/15. Meanwhile, if you see Trump as a fragmentary thinker and generalized blurter-of-things, this reads like a list of unrelated thoughts floating through his brain.

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    3. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      4/15. Zelensky opens the conversation by bringing up "draining the swamp." He introduces the corruption idea, which suggests that he has been informed by his people of concerns in Trumpworld over corruption in Ukraine.

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    4. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      5/15. A lot has been made of Trump's shifting rationale on the Ukrainian aid. The truth is, Trump has more than one rationale.

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    5. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      6/15. He explicitly talks about lack of European aid to Ukraine, for example ("All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ask them about") -- and corruption was obviously top of mind. So he's not lying about that.

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    6. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      7/15. Trump opens his "favor" requests by asking about Crowdstrike, the firm involved in the hack of the DNC emails. Only then does he move on to other topics -- prompted by Zelensky -

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    7. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      8/15. -who first brings up the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, and who also first brings up Rudy Giuliani ("We are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine").

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    8. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      9/15. These topics are originally raised by Zelensky, raising the question of whether Zelensky was actually attempting to create a quid pro quo rather than Trump.

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    9. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      10/15. This also explains why Zelensky, who has watched Trump conduct foreign policy for two years, mentions staying at Trump Tower: he's trying to butter Trump up.

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    10. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      11/15. Trump finally shifts into the Biden ask ("A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved...The other thing, there's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution...").

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      Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

      12/15. So is this him conditioning aid? That's utterly unclear from the transcript itself. It's bad behavior, of course -- ugly and inappropriate. If you're inclined to think of the whole conversation as a negotiation over aid, this is damning.

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        2. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

          13/15. If, however, you're inclined to believe that Trump is just bringing up topics with Zelensky in his typical haphazard fashion, there's no quid pro quo in bringing up Biden.

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        3. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

          14/15. Bottom line: this is the beginning of the inquiry, not the end. The call is not itself a smoking gun.

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        4. Ben Shapiro‏Verified account @benshapiro 25 Sep 2019

          15/15. It does raise questions as to what other conversations were had. And the rationale for holding back aid is the chief question when it comes to quid pro quo -- the only truly impeachable offense here.

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        1. gummywormz‏ @gummywormzlp 25 Sep 2019
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          So stopping political corruption is bad. Got it

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        2. CatrionaMDW‏ @CatrionaMDW 25 Sep 2019
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          That wasn’t about investigating Biden. It was about investigating Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

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        1.  🇺🇸Lt. Paul Hart 🇺🇸‏ @PaulHartNYC 25 Sep 2019
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          That's why the WhistleBlower's complaint is so important. Supposedly it will give context to Trump's statements.

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        2. Casey Shoup‏ @Casey_shoup 25 Sep 2019
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          It’s not a transcript

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        2. GC1CG‏ @GC1CG 25 Sep 2019
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          It's not bad behavior. Bad behavior would be asking them to find dirt on Biden. Trump did not. Bad behavior is the previous VP threatening to withhold $$ if the Ukraine doesn't fire the prosecutor. This was in the public realm and asking to get to the bottom of it isn't bad

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        3. GC1CG‏ @GC1CG 25 Sep 2019
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          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. Looking backwards isn't bad behavior. It's common sense.

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