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Here's the Proof that Trump's "No Quid Pro Quo" Call Never Happened
https://www.justsecurity.org/67536/heres-the-proof-that-trumps-no-quid-pro-quo-call-never-happened/by Susan Simpson
November 29, 2019
At the heart of the impeachment inquiry, members of Congress may have been mistakenly led to believe that there were two phone calls between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland in early Septemberwith the second call having the possibility of helping the Presidents case. Thats not what happened. There was only one call, and it was highly incriminating.
The call occurred on September 7th. In this call, Trump did say there was no quid pro quo with Ukraine, but he then went on to outline his preconditions for releasing the security assistance and granting a White House visit. The call was so alarming that when John Bolton learned of it, he ordered his deputy Tim Morrison to immediately report it to the National Security Council lawyers.
Sondland has testified there was a call on September 9th in which Trump said there was no quid pro quo, but that he wanted President Zelenskyy to do the right thing. A close reading of the publicly available evidence shows that the latter call was actually the very one that sent Morrison to the lawyers, and that Ambassador Bill Taylor foregrounded in his written deposition to inform Congress of the quid pro quo.
As this article was in the publication process at Just Security, the Washington Post published a report raising doubts about the existence of the September 9 call. The analysis that follows is consistent with the Posts report and, among other points, shows why Sondlands no quid pro quo call is in fact the same as the September 7th call that Morrison reported to NSC lawyers on September 7th.
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Here's the Proof that Trump's "No Quid Pro Quo" Call Never Happened (Original Post)
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Nov 2019
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Marcuse
(7,487 posts)1. Ghost tale
calimary
(81,304 posts)2. donald makes Richard Nixon look like an Eagle Scout.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)3. Could be one of the reasons tRUMP has not tweet attacked Gordy. nt