3rd October 2019, 12:17 PM
These past few days, Trump's people have been scrambling to create the narrative that the transcript both A: doesn't say what it says and B: even if it did say that, it doesn't MEAN that, you can interpret it charitably enough that it's nothing. Well, Trump blew all of that up.
Also, another thing:
And one last thing, it doesn't matter who the whistleblower is, or if they are credible, or even if you could 100% establish that they were lying and made it all up. It doesn't matter because Trump released the transcript. The whistleblower just blew a whistle, they are NOT Trump's accuser. Could they have been? Sure, but we're well past that now. Discrediting the whistleblower is pointless, and on our side, defending the whistleblower is pointless. Don't even engage with that. The whistleblower's roll in all this is over, dead, kaput. The only thing that matters now is the transcript, and that's all they need.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)