Why The Trump-Zelensky Call Is Just The ‘Tip Of The Iceberg’ | Talking Points Memo

The White House’s willingness to release such a damning record of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky suggests its account of the call is just the “tip of the iceberg” in the mushrooming scandal, experts and former officials told TPM.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1251438
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I just watched him and reread stuff and he is STILL ‘seeking’ Hillary Clinton’s EMAILS. That’s in there but it’s not as explicit as the military stuff.

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I would wager nine-tenths of Trump’s weight/mass is below his jowls.

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Absolutely the tip of the iceberg.

If they’re willing to show us this in all of its appallingly naked corruption, what, FFS, are they too ashamed to show us.

The mind boggles.

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@20committee quoting active IC contact almost 2 years ago:

“He [Trump] will die in jail.”

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When the IC is apparently referring the Precedent for a criminal investigation someone is dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s to get all this in the books.

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Absolutely. If they thought this was helpful, or at least not harmful, just imagine what else is out there.

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“The White House’s willingness to release such a damning record of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky suggests its account of the call is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in the mushrooming scandal, experts and former officials told TPM.”

At this rate, Trump’s gonna release the Pee Pee Tape himself, just to change the subject.

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O my god I can’t even believe how much I love this!!!

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"“tip of the iceberg”

Better hope it is. The President of Ukraine is now on the stage with Trump supporting Trump’s version and the MSM is fucking up the narrative entirely by focusing on quid pro quo.

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Have we impeached the motherfucker yet?

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The published report of the call alone would result in the impeachment of most Presidents, but I am not sure this report isn’t cover for something much bigger and much worse. The sad thing is I don’t have any problem believing Trump made the call and personally sought to twist Zelensky’s arm to help his election campaign.

This is Trump at his mob boss worst. I can’t wait to find out what the WB’s report says. It must be utterly damming for Consigliere Barr to take such pains to stop its release.

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Ok, Mango Mussolini is officially losing it… (again)

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Goddamn he is actually impeaching himself - but he really needed a real impeachment in order to move himself in that direction to this extent, let alone everyone else.

Those of us who thought so all along were right - once impeachment became a real thing the wheels started coming off.

Everywhere.

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I’m more nervous about the nation’s future than I have ever been. And I don’t mind admitting it.

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I’m more hopeful than I’ve been in 3 years!

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Thank you for feeding the self-pitying circular firing squad “dems in disarray” narrative :roll_eyes:

Being despondent is so easy that sometimes people forget how to be anything else. The White House is on fucking fire, if you hadn’t noticed.

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Nah…that’s just him stating their go-to overall talking point on this, which is that Pelosi has been overtaken by the far left radicalized socialists and the “Squad” and finally caved to them, letting them essentially run the Dem party, i.e., don’t elect any Dems next year because they’re all under the sway of the socialist neo-fascst revolution.

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Bizarre that you posted that, because I had a conversation with someone here in Europe right after the inauguration with high level connections in the IC (at the time the Steele Dossier was in the news and the first real hints about the scope of Russian interference was making headlines).

This person also relayed to me that they were predicting “he’ll die in jail”… I think I posted something about this over two years ago.

I was just thinking about it and your post popped up. I’d given up hope of it happening but now I am more hopeful again. (Actually the prediction was also that he wouldn’t finish his term, but I am less optimistic about that. On the other hand the tsunami which just hit may bring that back to life too.)

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I wonder if he is walking the halls in the Whitehouse talking to all the pictures of the previous presidents.

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