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The Trump Regime is using the US Security State to cover up their criminal behavior
Yesterday, the top story was that the Trump administration had released a transcript of a July 25th, 2019 conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, even though there was no transcript actually released. As the day went on, news outlets softened their earlier headlines, and the phrase, “rough transcript,” and other euphemisms to describe the declassified memo came into use.
The reason that this mattered were manyfold, including …
- Calling it a transcript obscures that Trump lied about something again; he said he would release the full transcript of the conversation to the public, and then failed to do so.
- Calling it a transcript implies that all of the details of the conversation were in it, versus only the politically palatable details.
- The narrative goes to the overall PR narrative the Trump regime is trying to push onto the public.
On point number 2, the idea that the memo might cover-up details of the phone conversation is critical. The conversation itself, what was released, is damning. In the call, Trump subtly pressures Zelensky to investigate Biden. Trump sees this conversation as an exoneration; to him, acting like a mafia boss is business as usual and quite…