Boston Herald

Reading the transcript

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I read the transcript of the phone call between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelenskiy, not once, not twice but three times. Why three times — because what the Congressio­nal Democrats have mentioned in their impeachmen­t reasoning just isn’t there. In the transcript there was back and forth discussion­s concerning other European countries not helping as much as US is helping, there were discussion­s about U.S. ambassador not being liked by President Zelenskiy, there was talk of U.S. sending Javelins for better defensive weapons against Russia and there was the discussion of Ukraine corruption and how President Zelenskiy said his administra­tion is going to drain the swamp. During that part of the discussion, which was brought up by President Zelensky, President Trump briefly mentioned Biden’s son and mentioned there was a lot of talk about the firings of Ukraine attorney general and the Ukraine president advised he knew about it. So here we go, a hearsay whistleblo­wer starts the impeachmen­t of President Trump on this phone call. So who is the best person to ask if there was a quid pro quo, who else but President Zelenskiy and what did he say, there’s no quid pro quo at all. That being said with quid pro quo still going forward by Congress on impeaching the president suggests President Zelenskiy is a liar, nice way to start a relationsh­ip with the new President of Ukraine.

— Tony Meschini, Scituate

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