Why did the White House release the transcript so quickly?

[blaze]

This keeps bugging me. It just seems they gave it up without a bit of protest and that doesn't make sense to me.

[DUgosh]

1. Because the real transcript

That exists on the private server is sooooo much worse

[kentuck]

5. True.

And there may be a lot more stuff to uncover?

[lark]

11. Exactly! Bet the one in storage mentions Russia.

Like it would be a shame if Russia was to invade and you didn't have sufficient ammo/equipment to stop them. I agree this was only released to hide the much worse and more traitorous things in the actual transcript.

[TrogL]

2. Because they wrote it

It’s got the Ukrainian President using Trump catchphrases.

[leftstreet]

3. Getting out in front of the narrative

It's what they always do

[Wounded Bear]

4. Trump has a history of one scandal replacing another...

he probably thought he could talk his way around this "little" problem.

[jcgoldie]

6. This is what puzzles me also

It makes no sense given the lengths they go in every other area to obstruct. It was either a HUGE blunder or we are missing the game. Even if its heavily redacted and the actual convo was much worse, which is likely, the effect of this "transcript" that was released was to completely undermine all the republican talking points on the whistleblower. They looked like morons in the hearing talking about how it was all unreliable 2nd hand info precisely because everyone had read the transcript THEY released verifying most of what the whistleblower claimed just hours earlier.

[TheRealNorth]

9. I think it's good to think about what they may be trying to pull

But they might have just underestimated the outrage it would generate.

[RockRaven]

7. Above all Trump cares about today and tomorrow's headlines, he's all tactics and no strategy, PLUS

he's a giant fucking moron who doesn't know enough about the duties of his office to know the transcript/notes/summary shows grave misconduct as well as blatantly illegal behavior.

Trump thought he could cut the legs out from underneath the Dems criticism of "what is he hiding" by not hiding it. He completely misjudged how the media would react, because he completely misjudged what he had or hadn't done wrong.

[empedocles]

10. That would be my guess. The impulsive trump.

Very helpful - to the Dems.

[Joe941]

8. because he isn't very bright.