looks like bribery to me

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. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you'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 to get to the bottom of it.

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. 

Meanwhile the Russkies are breaking down the door and the aid the Ukrainians were supposed to be getting was mysteriously being withheld.  I don't know, I guess if a mafia guy dropped by Beaglesonia and commented that it was a swell swamp and it would be a shame if something happened to it, Beagles would be thinking what a nice man he is for complimenting the swamp and expressing sympathy if anything bad might ever happen to it.

What is the secret part of the transcript?  Has Beagles been hobnobbing with Rudy and the gang?


Everything in the closed door hearings was not revealed to the press the following day.  The reason for closed hearings is so that the following witnesses don't hear what the previous witnesses said and tailor their testimony accordingly.  The present method is the method set in place by the republicans.  Trey Gowdy, who I am no fan of, said that open hearings are a joke and I have to agree with him on that.  Five minutes of a republican panning or praising the guy, then five minutes of the dems panning if the reps were praising and praising if the reps were panning, and all the time his eye is on the tv camera for sound bites for his next campaign.

Presumed innocence does not mean that you never investigate anybody. 


The Mueller report was effectively blunted by Barr, much of it was redacted by the same guy, and it was long and complicated, and scarcely anybody read it, although more of it is being revealed now, it is a blunt tool.  The dems are looking for a sharper tool, and they think they have found it in the attempted bribery of the Ukrainians.  It has a simplicity that they think most Americans will understand, though neither of the dawgs seem to, and that is a bad sign.  Still, all the evidence is not in yet, so there is still hope.


I remember when Romney in 2012 said the Russkies were our worst enemy and everybody laughed at him, me included.  At the time Russia was down at its heels and seeming adrift.  Anymore it has come roaring back and is being awfully aggressive.  I think it's credible now to call it our archenemy though some other country might become our archenemy.

What does selling wheat have to do with anything?  We had the wheat and wanted the money, they had the money and wanted the wheat.  It was business, it didn't mean we were friends.