House Democrats seem to believe that the totality of the White House’s released transcript of a July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a concomitant whistleblower complaint released today by the House Intelligence Committee amounts to a good-ol’ “smoking gun.”
Never mind that the phone call transcript is slightly inappropriate, in a Trumpian mischievous sense, at worst — and positively prosaic, at best. To divine an implied quid pro quo arrangement between Trump and Zelensky into that phone call transcript would be a disingenuous act of rank knavery. Indeed, a plain English reading of the transcript offers barely the faintest hint of such an agreement. Never mind, furthermore, that the whistleblower complaint — while potentially more useful for House Democrats in terms of aggregating witnesses and documents for an impeachment probe — reads like the self-obsessed musing of a disgruntled Deep State leftist who has spent far too much time imbibing the daily paroxysms emanating from Tom Nichols’ Twitter feed.
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