Trump: "I had a simple and very nice call. It wasn't bad, it was very legal and very good."

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Obama loving (wrote Obama book) Peter Baker of the Failing New York Times, married to an even bigger Trump Hater than himself, should not even be allowed to write about me. Every story is a made up disaster with sources and leakers that don’t even exist. I had a simple and very..

7:20 AM · Sep 27, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

.....nice call with with the new President of Ukraine, it could not have been better or more honorable, and the Fake News Media and Democrats, working as a team, have fraudulently made it look bad. It wasn’t bad, it was very legal and very good. A continuing Witch Hunt!

7:20 AM · Sep 27, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

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[leftstreet]

1. It was so good and honorable you felt a need to cover it up?

Wut?

[bdamomma]

4. yeah

and they use to cover it up by using another server????? WTF

At least some of us pay attention to facts and the truth.

[leftstreet]

8. Server is actually a time capsule of 'good' Trump calls!

[BlueMTexpat]

2. As if The Corrupt One knows

anything about good, honor or legality! Just think exactly the opposite of what he says and you have truth.

[Six117]

3. When does it not sound like a complete moron...?

NT

[Raven]

5. Does he really believe this? n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Yeah it was all good.

Just because he said, "that's a nice country you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.....right Mr. Putin?"

[tanyev]

7. The defense in the third grade mock trial rests.

[Miles Archer]

12. The kid no one likes gets reamed at Debate Club

[Mr. Ected]

9. And this, my friends, is why Donald J Trump would be a wonderful witness on the stand

He masks his stupidity with a bully's demeanor, has absolutely no grasp of the law, and can't express himself in words most of us learned after third grade.

Without a network of protectors, this man would have already been led to the gallows.

[dalton99a]

10. "It was so good and legal that I am calling for the whistleblower to be executed"

[Moostache]

11. Wait....I thought the call was "perfect" and "a 10"...

Now its downgraded to "very legal" and "very good"....looks like the Kelly Blue Book value of Trump's excuse was down graded!!!

[Stuart G]

13. Attack, Attack, and more Attack. This mornings tweets prove Trump knows nothing else.

He is calling this a "Witch Hunt" at 6:20AM ET. The President of the U.S. starting in at 6:20AM.???

[Pachamama]

14. Peter Baker & the NYT's should have the same reaction as Adam Schiff did yesterday:

Be complimented when someone of Donald Trump's "character" makes a critique of you like that....

[dalton99a]

15. What Peter Baker wrote:

WASHINGTON — No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the “listening room” in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine. By the time the call was over 30 minutes later, it quickly became clear that it was anything but.

Soon after President Trump put the phone down that summer day, the red flags began to go up. Rather than just one head of state offering another pro forma congratulations for recent elections, the call turned into a bid by Mr. Trump to press a Ukrainian leader in need of additional American aid to “do us a favor” and investigate Democrats.

The alarm among officials who heard the exchange led to an extraordinary effort to keep too many more people from learning about it. In the days to come, according to a whistle-blower complaint released on Thursday, White House officials embarked on a campaign to “lock down” the record of the call, removing it from the usual electronic file and hiding it away in a separate system normally used for classified information.

But word began to spread anyway, kicking off a succession of events that would eventually reveal details of the call to the public and has now put Mr. Trump at risk of being impeached by a Democrat-led House for abusing his power and betraying his office. The story of the past two months is one of a White House scrambling to keep secrets to protect a president willing to cross lines others would not, only to find the very government he frequently disparages expose him.

“The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call,” the whistle-blower, a C.I.A. official who once worked at the White House, wrote in his complaint, which was declassified and made public by the House Intelligence Committee.

“They told me,” he added, “that there was already a ‘discussion ongoing’ with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials’ retelling, that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain.”

But while the White House disparaged the whistle-blower’s complaint as full of secondhand information and media-reported events, it did not directly deny the sequence of events as outlined.

Moreover, other officials amplified the narrative on Thursday with details that were not in the complaint. For instance, they said, at one point an order was given to not distribute the reconstructed transcript of Mr. Trump’s call electronically, as would be typical. Instead, copies were printed out and hand delivered to a select group.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-ukraine-timeline.html