Thursday, October 31, 2019

Exactly what the Ukrainian president said

Quid pro no.  Federalist: "NSC Official Tim Morrison To Schiff: ‘I Was Not Concerned That Anything Illegal Was Discussed’ In Trump-Ukraine Phone Call"
Morrison testified that Ukrainian officials were not even aware that certain military funding had been delayed by the Trump administration until late August 2019, more than a month after the Trump-Zelensky call, casting doubt on allegations that Trump somehow conveyed an illegal quid pro quo demand during the July 25 call.
Which is exactly what Ukrainian President Zelensky said in an October 10th press conference.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

By all reports, Morrison's full testimony wasn't helpful to Trump and corroborated previous witnesses.

You're grasping at straws here. And not the good plastic kind.

Anonymous said...

NPR's report, culled from "all".

Morrison:

"After the call, I promptly asked the NSC legal adviser and his deputy to review it... I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed."

Anonymous said...

Politico Senior Legal Affairs reporter Josh Gerstein:
"Of course if Morrison acknowledges role in urging Trump-Zelensky near-transcript be moved to top-secret server, he's going to say he had no concern the call was illegal. Otherwise, he'd potentially have been obstructing."


Morrison conformed that there was a quid pro quo shakedown. This week, Republican Senators held a private meeting to discuss the option of acknowledging that despite the President's many lies ("no quid pro quo!"), there WAS a quid pro quo, but they're okay with it.

Good plan. That should make it "all" go away.

Anonymous said...

"I said I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed."

Anonymous said...

"Of course Morrison is going to say he had no concern the call was illegal. Otherwise, he'd potentially have been obstructing."

Anonymous said...

Has it reached such a level of desperation that "Morrison will save us!"?

Anonymous said...

In which "Morrison" = "Morrison and Taylor and Vindman and Hill and Cooper and Yovanovitch (etc) and even that poor dumb bastard Sondland."

And always with the same old "_____ will save us" line. You could just as cleverly say "Wassssup?!? or "Did I do that?"

Calm down, junior. Nobody's getting saved here. You're going to get to keep your putrid crook for another 14 months. This is about doing what's right, about permanently marking the history books, and about paralyzing the administration and hobbling Fat Boy's reelection. That won't save us, but it sure is fun!

Anonymous said...

...hobbling Fat Boy's reelection.

Ooh, have you got some massive pain coming your way.

Anonymous said...

"Hobbling" means slowing, damaging, impeding.

I know he can win. You're the dummy who thinks he can't lose.

Anonymous said...

I'm relieved. You'll then be at least partly inoculated from the pain. Try to console and help your fellow lefties when the time comes.

Anonymous said...

Mm hmm... You're totally confident that Trump is certain to win reelection. But you just prematurely ejaculated over the looming imaginary rise in Trump "good will" you were sure would follow the ISIS killing. And tried to jeer "where's the quid pro quo?"

You might want to rethink this whole trolling thing, son. You'll never be good at it.