Thread by @CrankyOtter

Holy Mothra forking shirtballs 😳

(I’m thinking the real words but don’t want to get censored needlessly.)

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1176860253448802305

Notes:
1) This (see OP) is not a verbatim transcript but a “recollection/interpretation” made by listeners.
2) The white house likely released the least damning version
3) This version is crazy with implied threats and quid pro quo statements

One thing to note is how adept “Zelenskyy” is at mirroring Trumps speech patterns. Either he’s that good or the notetaker is… Assuming words are prescZ’s…

He’s adept at speaking to mobsters. He shows loyalty to person over country.
He picks up what trump puts down.

Pg 1=we both cheat
PZ says he used Trump’s “skills and knowledge” to win his election. Says their (possibly meaning both Trump’s election & his own, or several Ukrainian) were “unique elections”.

I read that “unique” means “illegally influenced” (ads/news/vote counts/hacking).

The “unique election” had a “unique result” and PZ says “I think I should run more often”

My Read: Let’s both be dictators who never leave office

PZ: Drain the swamp to do “new type” of gov’t, just like you.

My Read: Flattery+Destroy norms, put in people w/loyalty to ME.

Just barely leaving page 2 for page 3 and PZ offers Trump more flattery and implies, with “almost” doing substantial weasel work to avoid commitment, Ukraine will buy more US weapons.

Trump’s immediate response is to ask for a favor. (Most news so far highlights this ask.)

(Deleted/edited for error correction)

Page 3 should just be one solid block of highlighter. My Read:

Trump asks favor, offers AG Barr, as contacts.

PZ uses exact language patterns Trump likes most, flatters him. Recalled Ukr-US ambassador as a favor to T.

Trump: Rudy knows

In prev tweet, my last highlights were Trump’s words (start of page 4) where he says AG Barr knows the score.

Then he brings up the Ukr-Us Ambassador again but refers to her dismissively as “the woman”. He’s bad with names but this feels worse than that.

It is worse than that…
Run, Former Ambassador Ivanovich!
Run fast, run far, run NOW.
Or have a bigger army.

Pg 4: PZ names Ivanovich, says he recalled her for respecting Obama more than Trump and suspecting she knows PZ is shady too.

Asks for MORE spying on his assets.

End of page 4, Trump mentions having “many Ukrainian friends”.

Pg 5 PZ: Hey, what a coincidence, I also have “many Ukrainian friends”. I stayed with them at your tower.
(confirms which friends while flattering Trump. Mad mob skillz.)

Promises to invesigate Biden’s son.

There is some scheme that Trump is concocting with Pres Zelenskyy involving energy and American oil.

It is already started but they need to discuss private details so let’s put off the official white house visit and meet in Poland first, yeah?

In 1 phone call:
Election interference AND replacing competent patriots with loyalist cronies in both US & Ukraine, threats to former ambassador, thanks Trump for spying on assets & asks for more. In return, will investigate Biden family & buy oil & maybe arms.

So much #TRE45ON

Fix: Trump says RUDY knows the score.
I deleted multiple tweets to correct this and make the same mistake 😖

Trump offers AG Barr as contact for results of Biden family invesigation by Ukraine but does NOT, by my reading of this non-transcript, imply Barr is in yet. Rudy is.

On my first pass, I highlighted “Additional” with additional red highlight thinking it implied either past intel was provided OR that addtl intel was on top of non-intel favors. But “thanks for info on our ambassador so I could fire her” definitely says Trump is spying for PZ.

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It’s Treason Turtles all the way down:

https://twitter.com/tvietor08/status/1176899863075672064?s=21

I couldn’t remember offhand what happened with Trump/Poland but here’s one reasonable take on why Pence went in his stead.

https://twitter.com/cpo10za/status/1176909153996087296?s=21

Add to prev tweet: Promises to investigate Crowdstrike, not just the Bidens.

Still unfolding links based on the w.h. Trump-Zelenskiy memo and this is to stuff we already know.

If the Dems can’t figure out how or why to impeach him, we need new Dems too.

https://twitter.com/davelevinthal/status/1176947543047122944?s=21

The GOP/white house talking points are mostly disproved by the released memo. Those that aren’t disproved follow these lines: “he said the name first!” Uhhh… it doesn’t matter who’s first if you then jump in to confirm that Rudy is in the know.

https://twitter.com/celeste_pewter/status/1176893188478402560?s=21

The Poland trip. Pence’s dodgy answer to reporter’s questions.

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1174852491617415169?s=21

Whistleblower complaint as read aloud, with bonus song at the end.

The whistleblower is quite good at condensing facts into a coherent narrative. It’s criminal that their skills are being wasted on a known liar who should already have been impeached.

https://twitter.com/adambrodsky/status/1177297361275707392?s=21

Clarifying: whistleblower’s (WB) priorites are absolutely in the right place as Trump is the biggest threat to the US.

My complaint: those who could have stopped him before dead immigrants in concentration camps didn’t. WB should be rooting out threats we AREN’T CAUSING.