Trump Tries To Explain Away ‘Favor’ Comment During Zelensky Call

President Donald Trump addressed his request of a favor from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday, insisting that by “us” he meant “U.S.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266578
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“What Mom? Rolling papers? In my jeans pocket? Gee, a friend must have put them there.”

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He waits until NOW to say that and thinks it’s believable? Of course,the deplorables will nod their heads yes and shout “US” at rallies now. SMH!

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Thanks for again highlighting the reference to the Attorney General in your call, Mr. President.

Just in case anyone forgot that Bill Barr is deeply wrapped up in this sordid affair and should be subpoenaed for his testimony under oath…

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Nice country you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to it.

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Exactly. And I would bet his nonexistent dog ate his homework too. Fucking moron.

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Well, he didn’t say “me” but that is exactly what he meant. I guess it is the royal “us”.

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So he wanted something? Wasn’t his defense a day ago was that he wanted nothing?

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No, no, that’s another transcription error. He meant Attorney and General Bill Bahr.

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Nice try
This guy spins it better

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Also, he didn’t have sex with that woman… It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.

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Well, I was leaning toward removal from office, but now I’m convinced. Four more years!
All it took was someone to explain it to me.
He reminds me of a student who is behind on a semester’s worth of homework. The student is always convinced that he’ll get it all done this weekend, and Dotard is always convinced that he can lie his way out of it.

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Not to state the obvious, that was pretty weak.

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Boy, his lawyers are truly earning those billable hours creating that poop sculpture, aren’t they?

Frankly, they wouldn’t be wasting time dissecting his original confession if they weren’t concerned about it.

Or, they just don’t have enough to do and have grown weary of watching porn videos.

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I would like you do to US a favor and announce an investigation–no need to actually do one, just announce it–into bogus, debunked conspiracy theories accusing my foremost electoral rival of some sort of shady behavior. Note well that if I’d said ME this would be bad but since I said US this is obviously for the good of the nation and doesn’t reek enough to knock a vulture off a garbage scow.

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“I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Daniels!”

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Well we are asked to believe that us that people heard him say when he really said US is a stretch, but then it begs the question did Trump have type written notes for this call? Can we see the notes? Has Trump had his vision checked? Can he do on live TV?
(I swear that the man needs glasses but is too vain to use them.)

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This reminds me of when Trump stood beside Putin in Helsinki and stated that he didn’t see any reason why it should have been Russia that hacked the election… only to try to convince us a few days later that he had said that he didn’t see any reason why it should NOT have been Russia that hacked the election. Talk about our lying ears…

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♬He didn’t compose those two twee-eets♫

Probably Scavino and/or Sekulow.

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Because the people of the United States are specifically interested in a conspiracy theory about Crowdstrike and Ukraine interference in the 2016 election that didn’t happen, as well as you announcing but not actually conducting a bogus investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden. Especially since Rudy and others working for me have been pressuring you and your predecessor to do this for 6 months or more through back channels outside the purview of State Department professionals and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. You know what I’m talking about, right?

Makes perfect sense.

This is just another reason that the Articles of Impeachment need to include acts and obstruction in addition to the Ukraine shakedown.

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